coming from a very poor family and I never had any meaningful amount of money way into my 30ies. then bitcoin happened. and one day i was - of all places -strolling through the aisles of a giant home depot store when it dawned on me that prices of things lost their meaning and that i could fill up my cart with what ever i wanted - but -unlike a kids dream in a toys`r us store- the magic was gone. i bought nothing.
This happens to me all the time. The so called "Window Shopping".
Not because I prices of things lost their meaning, but any number higher than zero is a positive number for me, and I can't bring myself to buy something no matter how cheap. (Depends on the product.)
I end up going to a dollar store, and while the items are indeed cheaper, I start calculating in my head that the price per item divided by the number of items, that it costs more, so I go back to the big hardware store.
Then I buy a $5 wrench. You know. For backup purposes.