The Monday Money Minute

Monday. Money Minute. Sixty seconds, no panic — that's the rule.

What came in this week: the usual, plus one refund you'd forgotten you were owed. What went out: the usual, plus a subscription from March that has been quietly leaving your account every month since. You don't have to cancel it. You do have to choose it — on purpose, or not at all.

That's the whole format: in, out, one thing to improve. Money stress grows in the dark, so we keep everything in the light, in plain numbers, once a week.

Over a month of Mondays, the leaks show themselves. Over a quarter, the savings goal stops being a wish and becomes arithmetic: this much, by then, this much a week.

One thing to improve. That's the whole assignment. See you Monday.