Episode Details

What if every discretionary purchase became a choice between the thing and the money?

In this episode, I’m sharing a spending experiment I’ve started after realizing something simple and slightly painful:

Everything you see used to be money.

The clothes. The furniture. The random Amazon purchase. The thing you bought because it was on sale. The thing you barely use.

So now, before I buy something, I’m asking a different question:

Would I rather have the thing, or the money?

And when I choose the money, I’m moving part of it into savings so the decision actually becomes visible.

In this episode, I’m talking about:

• the $40 jacket that sparked the idea
• why “I can afford it” is often the wrong question
• the difference between not spending and actually redirecting the money
• why the tiny purchases may be the most interesting part
• how I’m tracking this experiment as it unfolds
• how you can do it with me

I’m sharing the full experiment, the running total, the individual decisions, and what I’m learning over on Substack.

Follow me there so you can see how this plays out in real time:

https://substack.com/@elizabethbentonthompson