Lifestyle Creep

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Spend more money than necessary on non-essential upgrades? You're not alone. Lifestyle creep is often related to status, and its prevalence may indeed be bolstered by a perceived sense of lack. On today's show financial educator Kara Perez offers her best tips for combatting unintentional lifestyle creep in the day-to-day. Here’s a preview: [3:00] When Latte Factors and Treat Yo’self! intersect: At what point do treats become lifestyle inflation? [9:00] The Number One question to ask if you suspect you’re defining your self-worth by others’ standards [16:00] Applying “You can’t be what you can’t see” to money decisions [20:00] 2 ways to bring your confidence back to awesome when you feel ‘less than’ (without buying something new) [26:00] Don’t call it a budget, call it a spending plan: The super smart way to track spending without that complicated spreadsheet Resources mentioned: Kara on YouTube This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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1:00.8	Well, hello and welcome back. sustainable.
1:05.0	Well, hello and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian, and you're listening to episode 394 of sustainable minimalist,
1:10.0	a show about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living.
1:15.0	On today's show, we're discussing the concept of lifestyle creep,
1:19.0	and if your spending is eating into your savings, you might indeed be experiencing lifestyle creep.
1:27.0	Lifestyle creep can happen quite consciously.
1:30.0	Perhaps you have landed a new job or you just scored a promotion and you feel the conscious
1:36.0	need to treat yourself. Or perhaps lifestyle creep is unconscious.
1:44.0	Perhaps you didn't notice all the extras you've been spending your money on
1:49.4	until one day the impact is clear and it is very unpleasant.
1:56.0	Lifestyle creep happens when you have access to more money
2:01.0	and here to help us discuss the ways in which we can combat lifestyle
2:06.8	creep in our own lives is Kara Perez. She is the founder of Financial
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