If you want to deepen and broaden your math skills, practice buying a new car with advertised good deals, first come, first serve. Car dealers invent new ways of doing the math basics quite regularly. You probably can launch the Space Shuttle using their amazing deal making formulae. Have I got a deal for you. I can put you in a new EV for free and it’s only going to cost you $87,000 to drive it off the lot. Imagine that.

—RLN

Have you ever noticed how the value of some things changes over time? Have you ever noticed that while some things go up in price, those same thing go down in value to you? Tastes change, wealth changes, needs change, and life changes. The value you place on everything changes as you age. Remember this and then spend your money appropriately. It is O.K. to deflate the value of something as inflation does the same thing but for different reasons. —RLN