What has been the worst case of lifestyle creep that you have done or heard about? For me it has been a friend buying a summer and a winter car before getting laid off 6 months after buying it right after graduating from college. Any other crazy experiences or stories out there, looking to try to avoid them if I can.

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And here I was going to say allowing myself to uber around town instead of taking the bus, guess I gotta up the ante

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What’s a summer and winter car exactly?

That’s not a lifestyle creep, that is dumb. Even if you were trying to play rich, that makes zero sense. Lifestyle creep would be buy a winter cottage. Or booking a luxury trip. Buying a summer car and winter car is an idea usually dreamt up by kids who are around 10 yo

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Bumper sticker: My Other Car Is A Snowmobile

There was a piece in the NY Times a few weeks ago about people spending thousands of dollars a month on meal delivery services. It's this weird thing with people now where they honestly believe they are incapable of preparing their own food. I guess it's a way of rationalizing laziness, but it's striking how they're just tossing money into the wind.

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My three year old will only eat her scrambled eggs with a dollop of caviar, creme fraiche, capers, and fine wild caught smoked salmon

My wife wants to add lobster to the mix but I fear this is really going to push the envelope a bit too far

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Berries, Avacado oil and Uber Eats

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Oh I forgot,a nespresso machine

My cousin got a job offer, bought a work wardrobe because they have to be in the office, and had the offer rescinded two days before the scheduled start date... and they had already given notice to their current employer. That's real creepy.

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That's wild, am I silly for only having one car? 😆 my worst example of someone I know with lifestyle creep was my colleague who bought a timeshare before they actually bought a house. They thought they could treat the timeshare like a regular home and live in it full-time. I have absolutely no idea how they didn't know to do their research.

That’s not lifestyle creep. That’s an idiot.

Grocery delivery

Agreed

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$85 haircut (plus 20 tip). Used to be about $40 with tip. But my hair is now longer, so I get a haircut way less often. So it’s almost a wash

How often did you get that?

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