Personally I feel the more you make the more you spend lol. there was a time my husband made 65k and me 20k part time and we had no consumer debt except cars. And our life was a little more simpler. Now he’s making double that, but expenses are more. For instance he spends more on his clothes for work, his shoes, dry cleaning, constant hair cuts, he’s a manager so he often buys for the people who are under him. He has Manager dinners, a managers club he needs to put into . For us though it wasn’t stress. He was working a job that required hard labor, now he’s a manger and does no labor lol it’s just mental. So when he compares the two, he’d rather much be doing what he does now making the money he makes. But i do feel it’s how you live. We do tend to go overboard and buy crap just cause we can. Which is what we are fixing now lol ♀️