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Why financial success doesn't always change spending habits

I make six figures but I still buy generic cereal and clip coupons because spending money feels like tempting fate to take it all away.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Economic security cannot override deeply embedded beliefs about resource fragility and personal deserving.

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