I’m pretty sure saving money is a lie…

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For decades we’ve heard the same advice: skip the latte, spend less, invest the difference. But that assumes our biggest financial problem is knowing what to do with money. For most people, it isn’t. Between rising costs, endless ways to spend, and the fact that many Americans aren’t really pro investors, the actual challenge is changing our spending habits. That’s why I think we see today’s financial advice is shifting away from investment strategies and toward helping people keep their money from disappearing in the first place. I’m sharing some of the ways we’ve changed our own spending and buying habits to do just that.

0:00 – The Problem with Standard Financial Advice

3:26 – Why We Switched to “Downshifting”

5:15 – Sponsor: Ultima Replenisher

6:27 – Questioning Social Spending Norms

11:06 – Deconstructing Advertising

12:48 – Understanding Lifestyle Inflation

15:52 – The Cost of Modern Convenience

18:25 – Practical Tricks to Stop Impulse Spending

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SOURCES:
Sasaki, Fumio. Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017.

Schor, Juliet B. The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need. Harper Perennial, 1999.

Choudhuri-Wade, Ronita. “Christmas Loans and Other Ways to Borrow for the Holidays.” NerdWallet, 12 Nov. 2025, NerdWallet.

“2 in 5 Americans Plan to Scale Back Holiday Spending, Some Skip Gifts Altogether.” Nationwide Newsroom, 17 Nov. 2025

Annamaria Lusardi, and Olivia S. Mitchell. “The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence.” Journal of Economic Literature

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