09/01/2026
An enormous percentage of the internet exists to show you things you don’t have yet...but you could! Just click here! 🛍️
And that is not bad.
Wanting things is good.
Buying things is good.
Having things you still want is a pretty important part of being alive.
Because if you already owned and experienced everything you ever wanted to, what would be left to do besides die? ⚰️
The problem is that if there is no limit to how many things you can want, then things like happiness and saving cannot be put off until you’ve achieved total satiation.
There will always be another outfit.
Another trip.
Another house project.
Another little object that would make your life approximately 4% more delightful. ✨
And if you spend all your time looking at what you don’t have yet, it becomes very easy to spend all your money trying to acquire it.
This is, weirdly, one of the things I like about bookkeeping.
It doesn’t show me what I still want to buy.
It shows me all the things I already bought because, at some point, I wanted those too. 🧾
My financial records are really just a list of fulfilled needs and desires.
And taxes. 😏
They’re proof that “that thing I want” eventually becomes “the thing I already have.”
And a reminder that even with all that, I still want things.
And if one of the things I want things is the freedom of having a healthy savings account, sometimes the best thing I can do is spend a little less time looking at what I could have next and a little more time noticing what I already do. 💐