Threading the Needle

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few weeks ago, we published a piece called “Save or Spend” in which we asked our readers to recount a specific financial decision they made. This was the prompt we sent out:

We’re looking to hear personal experiences of spending dictated by values.

Tell us about a time you could have spent X amount on something, but decided to go lower. Why? How did it play out? Would you do that again?

Tell us about a conscious decision you made to spend more on something — more than you’d previously budgeted, more than you think is right. What took you out of your comfort zone, why did you do it, and in hindsight, was it the right decision?