Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all new episode

of the Financial Confessions.

It's me, your girl, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO

of the financial diet, and person who loves talking about money.

And also incidentally, person who loves talking about

and reading about home decor and now home renovations,

given that I am officially finally a homeowner, and all of

the stuff that sort of makes the space that we live in beautiful and functional and a place

that we like to be.

Something that we've talked kind of a lot about on TFD throughout the years is how creating

a space at home that feels good, that you want to be in, that reduces your stress level rather than adds to it,

that allows you to be productive, that allows you to get good sleep.

All of these things are hugely financial in nature.

We often find ourselves wanting to go out and spend money

when we don't frankly like being at home so much.

And for most people, there's going to be some element of home design,

decor, organization, renovation that contributes to a huge part of that.

Often we can treat things that are sort of beauty or creative or design in nature as being frivolous and unnecessary

and something that we should just cut out of our budgets or that shouldn't really be part of the conversation of personal finance.

But as we talked about on our recent interview with Hannah Louise Poston, which I'll link in the description and the show notes, there is a huge overlap for many people in the lifestyle choices that you make and ultimately the budget that you're living within and your financial priorities.

It's not realistic for most people to just cut all of this out, nor is it something that most of us should cut out because ultimately we have to live somewhere and that's going to impact how we feel, how we spend, and all of the above.

At the end of the day, though, for many people, especially more aspirational home decor and home organization are just frankly not very affordable.

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