Money Feels
Money Feels is the new alternative to the personal finance community. We're here to drop the shame, guilt, and judgement so you can learn how to heal your relationship with money alongside your internet besties, hosts, and unfiltered experts — Bridget and Alyssa
Money Feels
31: The Attack of Lifestyle Inflation
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Bridget Casey and Alyssa Davies
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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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