lifestyle creep is this idea that i'm gonna make more money and i'm just gonna blindly spend it on whatever comes in front of me and i will grant that a lot of people do that when i say i don't believe in lifestyle creep i don't believe in it for me and for my readers because when i go and buy something really expensive i'm not creeping anything i'm not lifestyle creeping anything i am running my numbers i am always leaving a fat buffer because i don't ever want to get close to the red line and i'm gonna buy it if i make more money of course i'm gonna spend more money that's the point the point is not to save this money like freaking scrooge mcduck no i'm actually going to be methodical i even have a number for every bit of unexpected income that comes in my wife and i have a plan this percentage goes to investments this percentage goes to travel this percentage goes to permanent lifestyle increases like going out for an extra date night something like that you better believe if i work hard and if i make more money my life is going to get better