I spent a lot of years with bill collectors calling and scraping by with barely any groceries. There was constant financial stress.
I yearned for nice new things. My clothes were old and outdated, I didn’t love my house or my car, and didn’t love many of the small material possessions I did have.
Every ‘extra’ penny that came in went to paying off debt that was only built back up again the next month.
As I became slightly more financially independent and was able to purchase nice new things… I was so dissapointed at how quickly those new things became ordinary and were now used.
I couldn’t afford to keep up with the newest things, and the things I did buy became used and ordinary really fast.
It kind of turned me off of buying expensive new things.
They just don’t stay new.