Is your lifestyle too expensive? We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance.
In today's episode, we discuss the following:
- What is lifestyle inflation, and have we been impacted by this?
- How does lifestyle inflation happen?
- Study finding what industries impact people's inflated spending
- Running in place and The Diderot Effect
- How to avoid (or manage) lifestyle inflation
- Some lifestyle creep is ok — but where is the line?
- What we plan to inflate in our future spending plans
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