I love Santorini, its my fave place on earth. I definitely made sure I enjoyed and savored every minute I was there (having cocktails on a terrace overlooking the sea was amazing).

This past week, I broke down and bought an executive first class ticket to Australia for February and a piece of original art that I’ve wanted for years from my favorite artist.

Rather than save save save, I’ve opened up and spent on me. And it feels good. I’m still going to put away money each month and stay out of debt, but YOLO! I make enough money to balance saving and spending.

Thanks for this post Kristin. It was brilliant.

Would have read/posted much much sooner but had to run the kitchen all day.

Anyway not sure how old yr puter but you could (in theory) swap the HD for an SSD and increase RAM. SSD = FAST. But it all depends on so many things– just throwing the idea out there.

Now pardon me, I have some drinks to to drink

Hope you’re having a wonderful Thanksgiving and enjoying BOTH of the lovely families that you have in your life.

If your computer is on its last leg, maybe we should take a look at it together to check it’s really dying and not something fixable. I guess it’s the frugal thing to do!

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I, too, have problems living in the moment. It’s easy to get caught in in an exciting future and not live in the moment. I’m trying to work on that….but since I am a natural planner and overthinker it’s hard!

I hope that you have an amazing Thanksgiving, Kristin!~

But….buy the damn computer!

This is great! I have similar issues of being so fixed on the medium-term that I don’t give myself space to enjoy the present…although sometimes that just results in careening back into spending too much in the present to compensate.

I hope your Thanksgiving is lovely!