Money is one of the last real taboos. More people will tell you about their sex life than their bank account. The specific anxieties of financial insecurity — the daily calculations, the shame of the gap between the life you present and the financial reality, the fear of what happens if something else goes wrong — live almost entirely in private.

Anonymous thoughts about money posted here are the things that couldn't be said where anyone knows your income, your rent, your debt. The honest account of what it actually feels like to live in a body that costs money to maintain.