The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Bruh. A better way to put it would be to characterise your family as savers and/or investors.
Consoomers.
It appears she doesn’t actually feel that bad about it, by her revealed preferences.
Yes, a pressure that is readily absolved by spending money that’s 2/3s earned by your husband.
Ugh. Stupid husband, how dare you be so controlling over our money, much less my money?
Perhaps you can make a simple Excel model to show her how your household net worth can grow using a given spending/savings rate, and a given rate of return on investment.
The takeaway for her being: more savings/less spending now, more money with which to flex later upon the Jones’s, other randos, and social media.
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