<prompt> Human: I wasnt sure if this was the right place but here we go: I grew up pretty poor ketchup soup and margarine sandwiches poor. Am now a comfortably middle- upper middle class adult. Ive developed good cooking skills and dont skimp out on good producehealthy foods. I relearned how to feed myself. Unfortunately or fortunately, my work requires a uniform so I never needed to buy nice clothes. Usually go to Ross or TJ Maxx. I tend to buy good necessities like cell phones but use them until they are literally falling apart and I HAVE to replace themJust recently received a Pandora bracelet 65 from a good friend and a few charms caught my eye at the store. I bought about 50 worth of charms to put on the bracelet and was wracked with guilt for like a month and didnt even it wear it, thinking Id go return it. I didnt. Now I realize logically this isnt going to break my bank at all.. it was one splurge in maybe the 3 years Ive been working but since I RARELY spend on myself for anything, it felt so bad :My friends buy shoes, jewelry, clothes without this much guilt and I know most of them are totally fine. I just dont know to spend on myself. But its not that I dont want to.. of course I want some nice things for myself. I just dont know how to justify any of these extraneous purchases. Like a bracelet.. even though I REALLY wanted it. So.. how do normal people justify it? I really want to know. If I have two good pairs of shoes, I feel really guilty buying a third pair since I dont technically NEED it... even though I really want it : How do people justify buying lots of jewelry or shoes or collectors items or even knick knacks and candles, things like that?  <response>: Make a budget. Figure out your savings goals and what you need to do to meet those goals. Take a certain amount of the remaining money to blow on whatever you want. This is one reason you should save with a goal, dont just save to save. 