I'm currently at the $10 threshold and live with a slightly older roommate whose threshold is more in your current range. Going out to restaurants, shopping, a

I'm currently at the $10 threshold and live with a slightly older roommate whose threshold is more in your current range. Going out to restaurants, shopping, and general errands are so different for us. I help him out a lot so when we do things I listed he usually covers my meals and everything but I'm still in my lower threshold thinking. Going to the grocery store and spending $300, to the hardware store and dropping $400, picking up some car part for $100 in a single day and he doesn't bat an eye. I would have exhausted an entire month or more of pay in one day if I did something like that. Going to a restaurant and seeing a meal costs me, say, 2 hours of work requires me to think about it. If my roommate is covering it might only be 20 minutes of work. The differences are amazing.