Sometimes non-urgent matters can send you a warning that you better be careful about how much you put into bitcoin, because sometimes things happen... and for example, you might have been using a computer and phone as your main communication devices, and they are used for work and for pleasure. You might even have a back up computer that can serve some purposes, but your back up computer is inadequate for your main purposes, and if your computer breaks down or gets stolen, then maybe you have back up files, but you still need your computer in order to do the work, so all of a sudden you have an expense that was a bit outside of your expectations, but if you don't replace the computer, you are going to be less efficient in your work and you might even lose income based on your lower efficiency. So you may well end up having to dip into both your back up funds and your emergency funds, and you find that the replacement of the computer taught you a lesson about how much back up funds that you needed to have available, and surely you will be lucky if you are able to replace your emergency funds and back up funds within a few months and before another emergency happens, since you might imagine that when you deploy money from your emergency funds and back up funds, that money is no longer available and has to be replaced to merely get you back to the point that you were prior to your computer breaking down. You also might realize that you have aspects of your data back up system that are inadequate, so maybe you have to buy another back up disk or some other extra expense that came to your attention ONLY after you had gone through the broken computer situation.
Like you mentioned, some expenses might be deferrable like maybe you need to get the computer right away, within a few days, but the back up disk (system) can wait for several weeks, even though you consider it as a needed upgrade, you have a currently working system in place, even though you came to realize that your current system is not adequate.
That’s true you won’t have any choice than to quickly take care of the system expenses because is something you need to work and to earn some income , so that’s something you won’t want to delay , now in scenario whereby one didn’t bother to have an emergency funds due to poor planning and stuff , so instance such expenses comes up and he funds wasn’t enough to handle the expenses such individual won’t have any choice but to temper with his bitcoin , to take care of such expenses, I know that there can be some emergency that may lead to one selling from their bitcoin without thinking twice like life threatening emergency, that’s why we have to focus on building a better emergency and back up funds because this how the little challenge we gonna face as an investor.
Whenever anyone really learns about bitcoin, they develop motives to buy as much of it as they can, and they want to put their money to work.
Frequently the newbie investors underallocate to emergency funds and to back up funds because they are trying to maximize putting their money to work, yet they won't realize that they made a mistake until all of a sudden they need the money because something unexpected happened and they do not have enough money to cover it from other resources that they have. They are lucky if they do not end up having to tap into their bitcoin investment and they are able to gather together enough funds to cover their unexpected expense, yet hopefully they learn from their unexpected expense about the need to have the emergency funds and/or back up funds that are in the local currency, and bitcoin should not be serving as a back up fund and/or an emergency fund.
Another thing is that it coudl be very tempting for someone who had already been buying bitcoin for a couple of years to feel that it is O.k to cash out of some of his bitcoin because maye his average costs per BTC are around $30k, so he is going to be able to get nearly 3x the amount that he invested - yet he still does not realize that it tends to not be a good thing to sell bitcoin while we are still in our BTC accumulation phase.. .and we might not even realize until a few years later that we sold some bitcoin at 3x profits, yet we had never been able to replace those sold bitcoin at a lower price because the price did not come back down and we would have had been way better off to have had gotten that money from some other source, rather than selling some (or all) of our bitcoin.