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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · Apr 4

Just so we’re clear:

We’re a lefty money account, not a MAGA account.

Just bc we are telling folks to stay calm during tariff & stock market volatility does not mean we endorse what our shitbird president is doing.

We’re here to talk you through how to react & how to protect yourself long term.

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 46m

Three things to do today:

1. Add $10 to your at home backup cash

2. Turn your devices ALL THE WAY OFF (you should be doing this regularly)

3. Do a focused 15 minute clean/declutter of one area of your home

Love,

Women’s Personal Finance, not WomenSPF

Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 48m

Like the people who talk gleefully about when he’s dead like it will somehow fix things even a little bit.

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Miranda Marquit @mirandamarquit.bsky.social · 1h

They have been working on this for decades at every level of government. Undoing it +building for a better future requires engagement at all levels. And unfortunately I’m not sure we have enough people who understand that. And that’s before we talk about the chunk of people that have no idea at all.

olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 1h

Do not be easily wooed by the prospect of easily weeding the people doing this from our society and a quick recovery.

In many quarters, undoing this and making it harder for it to happen again will be the rest of our lives.

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 49m

Well, yeah 🥲🥲

There are hopeful paths forward though! They do exist!

Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 11h

Not helpful? Whoops 😅😅

Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 13h

D was meant to be hopeful 😅

B and C are the really scary ones for me. And A, tbh.

Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 13h

I am usually not someone who gets excited about blow up costumes because they are hella wasteful and usually only used like once or twice…..

But the vibe that is 🐸 and co? Here for it.

Chinga la migra. Siempre. Ranas y más🔥

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 21h

Hope this helps your anxious brain, even a tiny bit. 💚

If you could use more of these kinds of conversations, you’ll definitely enjoy our weekly newsletter: womenspersonalfinance.org/socials

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 21h

E ) Some other black swan I can’t predict.

Aka, I’m not in the prediction game generally when it comes to retirement, so I’m going to hedge my bets and invest like there’s a future to invest for.

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 22h

D ) Things will completely have collapsed, and our money won’t matter anyway (in a good way)

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 22h

C ) Things will completely have collapsed, and our money won’t matter anyway (in a bad way)

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 22h

B ) We’ll have fully descended into technocapitalist dystopia, and we’ll need those stock market gains even more just to be able to buy things like bread and eggs

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 22h

A ) Stabilized out and the markets will do what they have done historically, and they’ll be up on average +7-10% annually

(on the long run, some years will be down and some up a lot more than that)

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 22h

I am a buy & hold investor. Which means that I’m doing the same thing this week as I was last week as I was 2 years ago. Putting as much money into my accounts as I can, while balancing stashing cash & other goals that require money.

The way I see it, a decade, two decades from now, we will be:

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 22h

For starters, the constant up while we keep getting terrible job and economy news and the country becomes less and less like a democracy… doesn’t feel right either.

(BUT definitely not ruling out market manipulation to make the oligarchs loads of money either)

Regardless.

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 22h

What am I doing, personally, as a leftist money nerd while the stock market is volatile?

🧵:

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 22h

Nice!!!

Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 1d

Three things to do today:

1. $10 to your emergency fund

2. Keep contacting your representatives, even if it feels useless (not contacting them is even more useless)

3. Spend some time outdoors and offline (with sunsceeen on, of course)

Love,

Women’s Personal Finance, not WomenSPF

Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 1d

Hooray for libraries!

Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no dang!!

Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 1d

How was your week? Any frugal wins to share?

Love this kind of conversation around money and consumption?

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 1d

But Regina and I had a conversation this morning about how much of the way we live just feels normal, even when it’s very much not.

So it felt like a good time to include this in the five. Because while it’s normal to me, it’s certainly not normal.

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Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 1d

5. I didn’t buy any clothes this week.

(If you’ve been around for a while, you know I haven’t bought clothes in 8.5 years, so this isn’t news, actually 😆)

Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 1d

If you don’t have an active library card, this is your sign to sign up for one (and use it!) because they are one reliable place you can truly be an anticonsumer.

Women’s Personal Finance @womenspf.bsky.social · 1d

4. My library card worked overtime yet again this past week.

I’m now up to 128 books read for 2025 (over half of them audiobooks) and whoa my budget doesn’t have room to buy nearly that many.

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