“Dude, why is being alive so expensive?”—an actual sentence I said aloud to Henah back in January when my dog needed surgery, my husband and I got a giant tax bill, Henah’s travel insurance wouldn’t come through, and a formerly in-network doctor informed her she owed them a large sum since they were now (surprise!) out-of-network. (USA! USA!)

One of the rudest awakenings of adulthood is the realization that simply paying for the boring stuff eats up a lot of your income, which can be incredibly demoralizing when you’re trying to make progress.

So which tactics (both financial and psychological) can help you plan for the mundane or unexpected? Will this ever stop, or do your financial problems just scale proportionally with your net worth?

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