Dealing with guilt after you start treating yourself?
Hi everyone, I don’t post often but here we go.
I’m a 24M making good money in tech, I’ve been working for like 2 years now. I live with my parents, almost zero expenses except what I spend on going out , use the 13 year old car we have (I adore it). So almost all of my monthly income goes into investments and I’ve amassed a good sum.
However, even though my parents are fairly upper middle class and they never tried to make me feel poor I still feel guilt whenever I treat myself and buy something expensive. I am obviously very responsible with money and I don’t have any major expenses coming up.
So yesterday I bought myself two designer clothes on a whim and I do agree it was an impulse buy but I really liked how sophisticated I looked in them. Plus I recently got promoted so I justified that it was a gift to myself? I did go very over budget than what I normally buy I agree but all in all the purchase would not even exceed 20% of my monthly income. But i still do feel weirdly guilty in the sense I could’ve saved that money and not spent it on this.