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When Social Pressure Drives Financial Destruction

I spend money to keep up with my friends' lifestyles but I am going into debt and I cannot figure out how to say no without looking cheap.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The performance of belonging becomes so expensive that it destroys the very security it seeks to project.

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“Where Are You with Personal Finance?”

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