💸 Hollywood’s Most Counterintuitive Money Advice: Spend It to Save It

How I Learned to Stop Hoarding Residuals and Love the Budget

We all know the drill: you finally get a paycheck, and suddenly you're the CFO of Scarcity, LLC. You start slicing $17 cold brews out of your budget and telling yourself that yes, a writer can survive on canned beans and self-worth.

But here’s the truth no one tells you in film school or your first free staffing job:
Being cheap can get expensive.

Sometime…