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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I miss being able to buy certain kinds of relatively expensive things without thinking about it.

For example, I've lost a lot of weight and would like a really nice coat. Before "downgrading my lifestyle" (quit a professional career for a passion job, and as DH gets close to retirement we are looking very close at spending less) I would have spent a couple thousand on such an "investment piece" easily. Now I've hesitated so much that I haven't bought one at all, and keep asking myself "Do I even really need it?"

I think I've overcompensating though.

We've also cut back on travel. We just took a somewhat expensive international trip, but we are only doing such a trip once every three to four years or so rather than every year or so.  [/quote]

A couple thousand dollars on a coat that’s an “investment piece?”  Yeah, I’m actually rooting for AI to eliminate all of your idiotic, overpaid white-collar jobs.[/quote]

It's a coat that you wear for the rest of your life. That is what an "investment piece" is when you are talking about clothing -- you invest in it because it will last long enough that you don't have to buy a coat ever again. When you are looking at wearing something for the rest of your life, you are looking at pretty good cost-per-wear. But go ahead and keep buying piles and piles of trash from Shein that end up in a landfill after one wear.

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While I don't spend $1000+ on coats, we spend on Patagonia coats/jackets.  They last longer than other brands, they repair them or give your money back years in if there are issues (got a new coat 4 years in when the zipper broke and they coudlnt' replace it exactly).  Also they give back, care about the environment and are generally a great company.  So yeah we spend $500 on coats, because it rains all winter where we are, and we need a warm and waterproof jacket to go outside.  I'm 3 years into my newest one, it looks like new and does the job well.  Well worth spending $500 versus 250[/quote]

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