Tagged: spending

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What I Spent In 2023

Happy New Year – 2023 is in the books and it’s time for my annual spending post.   I did my first spending post for the year 2020 and it was almost entirely done out of curiosity due to covid.  I...

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What I Spent In 2022

Happy New Year – 2022 is in the books and it’s time for my annual spending post.  I’ve never budgeted in my life, so when I did my first spending post for the year 2020 it was almost entirely done...

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I’m The Customer And I’m Always Right

When it comes to being a consumer of goods and services, I’m not a very demanding person.  I won’t allow a company to take advantage of me, but I’m also not the person sending back my entrée at a restaurant...

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Consumers Are Lying

Two articles came to my attention recently about consumer spending and sentiment.  Both articles paint a picture of tightening and changing consumer behaviors due to inflation and other economic factors. Call me a skeptic.  And it doesn’t take much searching...

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How Dopamine Affects Your Finances

From an evolutionary aspect, we humans have mostly existed in a world wrought with hunger, dangers, and limited resources.  We had to work very hard to get what we needed for survival or we’d perish.  When resources like food were...

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What I Spent In 2021

Another year done and dusted, and that means another spending report.  Although I’ve been blogging for over 4 years now, this is only my second annual spending report. I did one for 2020 because I was curious about my lower...

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The Upgrade Effect

Stuff.  We all buy it and need it.  In a post a few years back I laid out my three rules of stuff, coming from a frugal and financially independent mindset.  And recently I posted about maximizers and satisficers and...

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