🎇 It's good to celebrate

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Good morning Reader,

In a few days, we'll be celebrating the 4th with good friends and it's a fun mid-year reminder that it's good to celebrate from time to time.

How will you be spending the 4th?

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🥳 This is why rituals are important

I wrote this article in the fall, hence the emphasis on pumpkin spiced lattes, but it explains how rituals can elevate every day experiences.

It's a life lesson I try to bake into everything our family does and I think it works quite well (which could be confirmation bias buuuuut whatever).

👉 Why rituals are important

🧮 Best budgeting tools

Budgeting is an important part of managing your finances and there are a lot of tools out there, here are the ones we like.

Which do you prefer?

👉 Best budgeting tools

📜 Big beautiful bill has ugly in it

From the Commonwealth Fund: "In 2029, cuts to Medicaid and SNAP would cause state gross domestic products to fall by $154 billion, 18 percent more than the $131 billion they would save the federal government. The cuts would result in the loss of 1.22 million jobs nationwide, equivalent to a 0.8-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate. States with higher rates of poverty would likely be harmed more. State and local tax revenues would fall by $12 billion. Additional fallout from budget cuts to the health insurance marketplaces and the sequestration of Medicare funding will further harm the economy and employment."

👉 How Medicaid and SNAP Cutbacks in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Would Trigger Big and Bigger Job Losses Across States

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Talk to you soon!

Jim

PS. Are you on Instagram? For the last year, I've been posting short videos on it. If you'd like to see them, please follow!

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