CHAPTER 5
KNOW YOUR “ENOUGH”
Greed is a little bit more than enough.
—INDONESIAN POET TOBA BETA
I still remember the day. I was seven years old, sitting at the sun-dappled kitchen nook that my father had built. My chin barely grazed the tabletop, and my mother led the conversation.
“April, you’ve just learned how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. You like numbers. We have an idea that we think will help you learn even more. From today, we’re putting you in charge of your own budget.”
At the time, I couldn’t quite process what this meant. What about my allowance? Was this like a budget for pocket money, or for everything?
It turns out, my parents were quite serious. If not everything, I was in charge of almost everything: from school supplies ...
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