Your co-pay, your FSA balance, your deductible reset date. None of those are in your budget. All of them will hit your account this year.

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that is not a plan.

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Minimum payments on student loans feel like progress. The amortization schedule says otherwise.

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first of the month feels fake.

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Credit utilization below 30% improves your FICO score. It does not reduce what you owe. Those are two completely different outcomes being conflated constantly.

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same mistake. different month.

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cash flow positive. net worth negative. that gap has a name.

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You know your APR on three credit cards. You do not know your net worth. Those two facts explain each other.

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Your W-2 shows what you earned. Your net worth shows what you kept. Most people have never compared those two numbers in the same room.

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the Costco receipt never lies.

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