The Freedom Fund: A Wife’s Secret Savings, A Marriage’s Public Collapse

be destitute.

So, I opened the “Freedom Fund.”

It’s an online-only bank account. No paper statements. No trace.

I became a master of the “invisible tax.” I buy the generic store-brand detergent but pour it into the expensive brand-name bottle so Mike thinks we’re paying for quality. I pocket the difference. I tell him the electric bill went up because continue reading …