<prompt> Human: Ive been hesitant to run this by anyone else offline as I feel it could be perceived as a bit offensive to some or shallow to others.Does anyone else feel like the more they learn about money, the smarter you become with your choices, the less impressive monetary amounts become?For example, when I was 80k in debt, this number was monumental. An amount that seemed too far out of reach, I couldnt envision getting out of debt. Hell, 1,000 was a lot of money to me.Yet, as I worked through eliminating debt, having spent just over two years doing it, my mind has been altered. Now that Im controlling my money, making great progress, and continuing to improve my finances, my perspective has changed. I studied personal finance two years before implementing change, so Im close to five years of continued learning. That means nothing to me except that Ive come a long way personally.1,000 is merely pocket change that is nice to have but in the grand scheme of saving a 6 month emergency fund or saving to pay cash for a home, its nothing. I received 3,500 the other day from an item sold and while that was used to further power my financial goals, its not very much money.Is my perspective common or am I treading dangerous territory in thought?Edit: I was surprised to see how active this post became. Im glad to see that the absolute greater percentage of people can relate to what I tried to explain. To be clear, the context of my stating that 1,000 is pocket change has nothing to do with it being a small amount that I can disregard in wasteful spend. Rather, its such a small amount when Im actively trying to save my six month emergency fund at this moment and have set a goal to buy my next home with cash in the distant future. Im grateful for the many comments that have helped me better understand my transition of both thought and perspective.  <response>: I feel you.2 years ago 47k felt like a lot, this month i just put in my last payment and at some point earlier this year i was like holy wasnt this at 47k? but i never really thought about it because all i cared about each day was where am i within budget. am i on budget, is there anything going over budgetunder budget?Because I had a plan on how to spend my money the balance numbers didnt really matter to me, especially not my student loan balance, didnt matter how much i had in my retirement fund not that theres that much in there right now, hasnt been that long anyway.feels good man 