My SO and I travel for work and live full-time in a travel trailer. We bought it for $500 and spent about $4000 for repairs and interior remodel. It's been our comfy home for four years and honestly it's been wonderful.
We've been striving to live as frugally as possible, keeping our total expenses under 1600 a month.
Generally, I find that a lifestyle of frugality brings a multitude of advantages, and it's usually not a struggle to make the frugal choice. Lately, though, I've been dreaming about making some unnecessary improvements to our bedroom and it's giving me a bit of a dilemma. There's honestly nothing wrong with the bedroom the way it is, but I've been wanting to 'cozy' it up and make it more luxurious. I want to build some corner shelves, buy a pillow top mattress cover, some real linen sheets, and a nice fluffy comforter. Hang some nice lights and a few decorations, make some curtains for the window, and make it more homey. The problem is it's just so unnecessary and I can't justify it. We've got a nice mattress, I've got the same nice warm quilt I've had since I was 12, everything is in good shape, it's just not as cozy as it COULD be. I've got an Amazon cart with $120 of bedding and decorations that I've been drooling over for a week now, but we don't need it. How do you guys handle a situation like this? Since frugality is usually our default mindset, the struggle here is killing me. I feel like giving in and buying this stuff is sacrificing my normal values and giving in to lifestyle creep. But I also keep dreaming about a nice cozy comfy bedroom. I realize this is a complete non-crisis and a total first world problem, yet here I am, drooling over an idealized bedroom I've romanticized in my head.
February 24, 2019 at 09:26PM
