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2020-07-23 Economy

Living on one income is like losing weight: You need focus

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-23 01:52|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 COVID-19 is a game changer. There is no going back to "normalcy" (normal by which standard*). And no amount of denial is going to change it.

*To me, middle class imitating the habits of the leisure class doesn't seem normal. They are what they are, and we are what we are.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-23 02:42|| 2020-07-23 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Sort of like Samuel Johnson's comment about how being sentenced to hang focuses the mind.

Posted by ed in texas 2020-07-23 15:39|| 2020-07-23 15:39|| Front Page Top

#3 My sister-in-law paid for her younger daughter and son-in-law to go through this course, because nothing less was getting through to them. Reportedly it was indeed life changing. The elder daughter didn’t need to learn those lessons.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-23 18:50|| 2020-07-23 18:50|| Front Page Top

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