I Came Home From a 12-Hour Shift to a Maxed Card and a Mess—So I Cleaned Everything and Set the Boxes by the Door

table and started highlighting charges. Every statement showed purchases from stores Rebecca loved, restaurants she wanted to try, salons she visited weekly.

The first year of her unemployment, she’d spent eighteen thousand dollars. The second year was twenty-six thousand. The third year was thirty-six thousand and counting.

Eighty thousand dollars in continue reading …