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My Newly Divorced, Formerly Rich Friend Amy Is Struggling To Live Like The Rest Of Us

PomeroySays
6 min readJul 10, 2024

My formerly well-off friend Amy divorced her husband last year. And she is floundering. I do what I can to help her and her kids but she is too stubborn to get a job.

It’s like, could I picture her working at Target? No. She thinks she is too good for retail jobs. She never worked retail even while in college, she never had to.

So now she has to get creative and she doesn’t know how.

Because in this economy, the s-t is hitting the fan for everyone. Inflation is not going away and we all need to learn new ways of living.

Here are 20+ tips I’ve given her and others on how to make money stretch:

  • Not panicking when broke. People who have always had to make ends meet figure out ways out of being broke.
  • Not needing to have a perfect home. I have had the same kitchen for over 20 years. While I would…

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