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One economist's take on popular advice for saving, borrowing, and spending

Planet Money

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Mental Accounting

Mental accounting is the practice of breaking up your wealth into different little buckets. In more extreme versions of mental accounting, you cannot use the money that you're saving for your Hawaii vacation to save up for the down payment and apply it to the down payment. Maybe increasing your spending a little bit in your 20s actually is going to boost your lifetime total happiness.

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