what do you like the most in your life and is it what you spend money on?

[Anonymous]

While procrastinating at work, I saw this discussion on a Reddit thread - people listing what they enjoy most in their lives, and those correspond to what they spend money on.

I found the conversation useful but also kind of Like obviously some of the things I enjoy most are what I also spend money on - our home, traveling, eating out/visiting with friends, our pets, books, new clothes. Others are just things I need - like student loan payments, gas for the car, allergy medicine (though I suppose breathing is one of the things I most enjoy).

Anyway, I was curious how you find that exercise. Folks on Reddit said that listing out what makes them happy helped them save money, by realizing they were frittering away $$ on things they didn't love that much. (It's a sort of Marie Kondo approach to spending, I suppose?)

[Anonymous]

I like the 15 minutes per day when I can hide in the bathroom uninterrupted.

Dat mortgage and daycare tho.

[Anonymous]

Reading. and I should get the books from the library but I dont because it takes me much longer to read than the book's due date (I only have time to read just before sleep)

[Anonymous]

We spent too much $ on an old house. But I love it and it’s a giant project so I keep fixing it but by bit with my free time (hah hah as I WOh and have 1 kid and one on the way). We like to travel too but that’s taking a back seat in the daycare years.

[Anonymous]

Hmm. Live music and travel are what make me happy. I guess I spend a fair amount on each.

And my morning stop at Starbucks. That adds up too.

[Anonymous]

I guess the thing I like most is time and I am willing to spend...or perhaps forgo...money for it. I stepped back into a lower paying job to have less stress and less hours. I am going to pay someone to mow the lawn this summer because I don't like doing it.

[Anonymous]

Vacations. And coffee. I spend a lot of money on both of these things.

[Anonymous]

What's best in life?

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

A pleasure that pays for itself!

[Anonymous]

This is OP - and I think, on reflection, that this exercise is having the opposite of its intended effect on me. It's making me realize how MUCH pleasure I take in things that I can spend $$ on - and how much I dislike not spending $$ on things that do bring me joy.

Not a great feeling when we're getting an unexpected $8k tax bill! Paying the IRS does not bring me joy.

[Anonymous]

Beyond the necessities, my favorite thing in the world is music. I spend the highest percentage of discretionary income on records and music-related things. I just bought a vintage guitar amp and a couple new tuners for my guitars. I plan to get a pickup for my acoustic and an acoustic amp. I also want to put a Bigsby on my electric and am thinking about getting a new pedal.

I don't like to compromise on quality for my guitar things (I'd rather not have it than have a crappy version of something), so these things end up being expensive.

If I had unlimited money, I'd get my 2 dream guitars (a 1960s 12-string Rickenbacker and a 1960s Gibson SG Standard). I also really want a Gibson J-200 acoustic, but I'm a small person who literally can't play it because it's so big. Sadly, each of those guitars runs somewhere between $3,000 and $9,000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beyond the necessities, my favorite thing in the world is music. I spend the highest percentage of discretionary income on records and music-related things. I just bought a vintage guitar amp and a couple new tuners for my guitars. I plan to get a pickup for my acoustic and an acoustic amp. I also want to put a Bigsby on my electric and am thinking about getting a new pedal.

I don't like to compromise on quality for my guitar things (I'd rather not have it than have a crappy version of something), so these things end up being expensive.

If I had unlimited money, I'd get my 2 dream guitars (a 1960s 12-string Rickenbacker and a 1960s Gibson SG Standard). I also really want a Gibson J-200 acoustic, but I'm a small person who literally can't play it because it's so big. Sadly, each of those guitars runs somewhere between $3,000 and $9,000.

Honey! I had no idea you posted on DCUM.

J/k, but you could be my spouse's clone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beyond the necessities, my favorite thing in the world is music. I spend the highest percentage of discretionary income on records and music-related things. I just bought a vintage guitar amp and a couple new tuners for my guitars. I plan to get a pickup for my acoustic and an acoustic amp. I also want to put a Bigsby on my electric and am thinking about getting a new pedal.

I don't like to compromise on quality for my guitar things (I'd rather not have it than have a crappy version of something), so these things end up being expensive.

If I had unlimited money, I'd get my 2 dream guitars (a 1960s 12-string Rickenbacker and a 1960s Gibson SG Standard). I also really want a Gibson J-200 acoustic, but I'm a small person who literally can't play it because it's so big. Sadly, each of those guitars runs somewhere between $3,000 and $9,000.

Honey! I had no idea you posted on DCUM.

J/k, but you could be my spouse's clone.

Haha awesome. Nice to know there's another guitar fanatic out there. I'm female and my major struggle comes with how big most of these guitars are. My secret wish is to design a version of electric guitars for ladies.

[Anonymous]

Based on where my discretionary income goes, I must really like beer.

[Anonymous]

My child.

[Anonymous]

Spending time with my husband, kids and grandkids! We love taking nice vacations but its secondary to family. But our biggest spending is on philanthropy for disabled children in a third world country. That's the best.