Always great to read from you!
With the war is looming out there and rising living cost, adopting that lifestyle has its own perk. Maybe that experience sort of prepared me for this, accepting the simple and basic life, that afterall what we can survive with the essentials without being too brand conscious.
I had my moments with lifestyle inflation and learned my lesson. Definitely wouldn't want to be trapped in that hellish, never-ending satisfaction and the need to upgrade things.