Archive - Running Balance

My Medicaid Babies

How my family got here

Mar 3

February 2025

The Weekly Spend

Getting things back on track. Kinda.

Feb 16

November 2024

The Next Four Years

Get out a pen and paper

Nov 8, 2024

February 2024

You mad about the economy, bro?

Feb 12, 2024

March 2023

The Chipotle Thing

And the food thing in general

Mar 25, 2023

January 2023

And the biggest financial misstep I've made so far

Jan 26, 2023

December 2022

The Balance Sheet

The good, the bad, the frivolous

Dec 4, 2022

October 2022

The Union Raise

And the consequences

Oct 14, 2022

What do broke people eat?

Oct 1, 2022

September 2022

The Side Hustle

Labor Day and a quote from Barbara Ehrenreich

Sep 10, 2022

January 2022

The Week in Purchases

😷, 🚙, 👑👗

Jan 30, 2022

The Shame Thing

A coworker: They’ve just given people too much free money with these stimulus checks and now no one wants to work.

Jan 15, 2022

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