Social DynamicsBafflegab
Loud Budgeting
lowd BUJ-ih-tingnoun
What it means
The practice of announcing that you are not buying anything this month, in a tone calibrated to be admired for it.
What it actually means
I am not buying it, and I would like to be praised for that.
How it is used in a sentence
"I'm loud budgeting this month, no dinners out."
Filed under
Social Dynamics — The unwritten rules we invented online and now enforce in public without irony.
Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.
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Real meaningI am exhausted and calling it ambition.