How do you decide what is worth spending on in a bad year?

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Maya Okonkwo

30 Mar 2026

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Everything feels either essential or extravagant depending on the day.

4 replies

1. JI

   Josh Iremonger

   30 Mar 2026

   Keep the things that make you better and the things that make you visible. Cut the things that make you feel busy.

2. RB

   Reeva Bhandari

   31 Mar 2026

   My order when it got tight: class stayed, one subscription stayed, everything else went. That was the right call.

3. AV

   Anneke Vos

   1 Apr 2026

   Ask what happens if you stop for six months. Most things, nothing happens. That tells you what they were worth.

4. NO

   Nathan Ostrowski

   3 Apr 2026

   The one I would never cut is the thing that keeps you around other actors, whatever form that takes for you.