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The struggle is real.

I love Simon’s Cat . The struggle is real, people.

Budgeting: The Money’s Not Your Problem

The first post in this series was about Baby Step 1. The second , Baby Step 2. Before I go into Baby Step 3, we need to get a few things out of the way. Let us start with Thin Mints. Smooth. Delicious. Minty. These cookies mean a lot to me. They bring back childhood memories. My mother would buy several boxes. She would remove the sleeves, place them in the freezer and let them harden. Then I would stand at the foot of the fridge like a poor man on a Depression era bread line and ask for more. Turns out your mouth gets bigger as you grow up. The cookies don’t, though. As mouth size increases, cookie size remains the same. It does terrible things to the Thin Mint supply and demand curves of my stomach. The law of diminishing returns gets thrown out the window. They have never stopped being so incredibly delicious. Let’s pretend there are 30 cookies to a sleeve. There are two sleeves in a box. That’s 60 cookies. Here’s where I start to make my point. Answer this carefully:   Wha