After a financial scare, I’m focusing on changing my behavior around shopping, money, and stuff. (Again.)
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I broke down while telling my therapist about how terrified I was, thinking we’d owe far more tax money than we accounted for. Thankfully, it was $1,000 more than usual, and not the quadruple+ our normal payout we feared it…