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You Need A Budget

August 14, 2008 By: macbraughton Category: Economics, Rants

The author of the extremely useful “You Need A Budget” financial software, Jesse Mecham, surprised the world today when he decided to quit budgeting. The full details can be found here.

We regard this post as highly controversial and recommend to everyone to not listen to this madness but keep budgeting with all ye might.

Tags: budget, humour, money

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