It was an order of magnitude or two less but: Stopped chasing external jobs. Started working on aggressively non-commercial personal projects while living simpl

It was an order of magnitude or two less but: Stopped chasing external jobs. Started working on aggressively non-commercial personal projects while living simply. My main splurging has been that my laptop upgrade cycle got faster than every five years for a little while. Also a couple of cross country moves, once to Seattle because I missed the west coast and it was a compromise my SOs would make, then back home to New Orleans because Seattle’s cost of living was skyrocketing and I missed the sun and wanted to live somewhere I could pay the rent with what I make off those personal projects.