Keeping Up With the Joneses in Your Thirties

i'm in my thirties, and my friends life styles at this point really run a wide spectrum. So i guess i don't know what keeping up with the joneses looks like in 20 22. I think maybe this is like overlyopti stic and maybe even naive. How do smaller purchases and smaller decisions wind up contributing to what we're calling life style creep? Sometimes when we buy one nice thing, we think that's not going to cause a recachet or a domino effect where we're going to need other nice things... But it often happens. And if you learn how to catch yourself and think about buying in that sense, i think that's a