{"id":29836,"date":"2010-04-22T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a0109a0e50.nxcli.io\/\/3-signs-you-are-suffering-from-lifestyle-creep\/"},"modified":"2021-06-28T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:18:04","slug":"3-senales-de-que-estas-sufriendo-un-aumento-repentino-en-tu-estilo-de-vida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savvyladies.org\/es\/education\/3-signs-you-are-suffering-from-lifestyle-creep\/","title":{"rendered":"3 se\u00f1ales de que padeces un estilo de vida desordenado"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Manisha Thakor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you ever feel like your possessions are holding you hostage? Or perhaps that you\u2019ve bitten off more stuff than you can chew?  If you\u2019ve ever suffered the pangs of financial indigestion, you may be one of the millions of Americans suffering from\u2026 lifestyle creep.<\/p>\n

What is Lifestyle Creep?<\/h3>\n

Not to be confused with \u201cKeeping Up with The Joneses,\u201d lifestyle creep<\/a> occurs when the more you have, the more you think you need. Here\u2019s an example. You get a new pair of pants. But they don\u2019t go with your old shoes. So you have to get a new pair. Then your bottom half looks so spiffy you feel the need for fresh top. In this dandy outfit, however, you no longer look so good in your old clunker of a car so\u2026 well, you get the point. Here are 3 signs that \u201cthe creep\u201d might be happening to you:<\/p>\n

1.    You have a public storage unit. An amazing 1 in 10 Americans have them<\/a>. As of year-end 2009 there was 2.4 billion square feet of public storage space in the US. To put this in perspective, if you lumped them all together they would be 3x the size of Manhattan island \u2013 under one roof!  Yeesh, that\u2019s a lot of stuff. If you\u2019ve got a storage unit key jingling around in your pocket, it could be a sign that your lifestyle is literally bulging at the seams of your home.  [Big hat tip to my friend Francine Jay, author of Frugill<\/a>ionaire<\/a> who first brought this to my attention in her wonderful blog<\/a>.] <\/p>\n

2.    Your house has more toilets or TVs than occupants. My grandmother\u2019s house had 1 toilet and 1 TV for 4 people. No one lost life or limb. Think about your home right now. How many toilets do you have? How many people are living in your home? Or do it with TVs \u2013 the point is what we as Americans think we NEED has gotten horribly confused with what we WANT.<\/p>\n

3.    You visit the mall more often than you do the grocery store. 1 in 3 Americans are obese \u2013 physically. Another 1 in 3 are like me, battling with those stubborn last 10 pounds. As a nation we do not eat nearly enough fresh veggies and fruits. I\u2019m of Indian heritage. Growing up we visited my family in India, where going to the local vegetable stand for fresh foods was a near daily ritual (and one that kept my rellies thin & trim). Today most of us shop at the mall more often than we shop at the grocery store. As a result we\u2019ve become financially obese as well.<\/p>\n

Have you ever experienced lifestyle creep? If so, I\u2019d love to hear your experiences\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Want more financial love?  You can follow Manisha on Twitter at @ManishaThakor<\/a> or on Facebook at \/ManishaThakor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00bfAlguna vez has sentido que tus posesiones te tienen como reh\u00e9n? \u00bfO tal vez que has abarcado m\u00e1s de lo que puedes? Si alguna vez has sufrido los dolores de cabeza de una indigesti\u00f3n financiera, quiz\u00e1s seas uno de los millones de estadounidenses que sufren\u2026 un estilo de vida descontrolado.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[1,448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-family-finances"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savvyladies.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savvyladies.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savvyladies.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savvyladies.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savvyladies.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.savvyladies.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savvyladies.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savvyladies.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savvyladies.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29836"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}