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An Unofficial Guide to the Best Money Diaries (Part 2)
I’m not going to lie and say that my last article about Money Diaries was wildly popular, but the truth is that I can’t get enough of them. Getting insight into the lives of other women has been super intriguing. I now present to you another installment in a series I once called “Messy Money Diaries” and now call “Best Money Diaries.”
The Tarot Reader in Austin
This Money Diary features “witch shit,” White Claws, CBD sodas, and a shit ton of Mercury in retrograde. The diarist claims she’s can’t hold down a job because she has depression, which induces major eye rolls from the commenters. This one is pretty wild. I would totally go to a terrarium-building party though.
The Full-Time Traveler
The diarist and her partner are staying in hostels in Indonesia, but they don’t seem that great at it? The diarist is mad about paying full price ($4) for a vegetarian version of a meal at a cafe and ends up crying on the sidewalk later. She also complains about tourists in Bali while being a tourist in Bali and accuses somebody of trying to scam her when she tries to pay with US currency. She uses some pretty disparaging terms to describe places in Indonesia and complains a bunch.
The Midwestern Physician
This physician is planning her wedding, getting off Accutane, and eating a ton of peaches. Seriously — more peaches than I could even imagine. She’s also recently become Catholic and describes sleeping next to her fiance as “co-sleeping,” phrasing I’ve never heard before to describe sleeping with a fellow adult.
