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A prodigal starts with ten thousand pounds, and dies worth nothing; a miser starts with nothing, and does worth ten thousand pounds. It has been asked which has had the best of it? I should presume the prodigal; he has spent a fortune — but the miser has only left one; — he has lived rich, to die poor; the miser has lived poor, to die rich; and if the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it, still deeper in debt to himself.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 131 (1822)

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Steve Dustcircle 🌹6d ago

"I am planning a #lowbudget, #potluck-style #Christmasparty to spend time with #friends without #overspending"

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-spend-christmas-with-friends-without-overspending-2025-12

How to spend Christmas with friends without overspending

Here is how I hosted a potluck-style Christmas party for 10 people with an optional gift exchange on a $100 budget.

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Obscure_Rebel Dec 21

Racist policing?

“Police give Farage free pass over election overspend”

by Skwawkbox with The Canary

@thecanaryuk
@uk_politics

“#EssexPolice have given Reform UK leader Nigel Farage a free pass on his alleged #overspending in his #campaign in #Clacton in the 2024 general #election. No details have been released about the scale of the overspending. The police have declared that too much time has elapsed for the case to be pursued”

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/20/nigel-farage-gets-police/

#Press #UK #Farage #ReformUK

Police give Farage free pass over election overspend

Police quietly drop an investigation into Nigel Farage’s alleged GE24 campaign overspend — no details released and no consequences

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Hacker News Dec 16

You're overspending because you lack values

https://www.sherryning.com/p/youre-overspending-because-you-lack-values

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You're overspending because you lack values

Overconsumption is a spiritual problem, not a money problem. Lessons about desire from "Spirited Away".

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