<prompt> Human: So up until June of 2016, I was a saver, turned down multiple events, and in return I got to save a ton of money. However in July I decided I needed to live a little, so I turned off 4 of my automatic contributions to savingsretirement accounts and decided for the next 4 - 5 months I would use that money for fun money, and will soon be turning my automatic contributions back on but this time it will be more focused on balancing fun with saving.What I learned from that experience was amazing, that is yes saving can be fun and seeing the numbers rise can be fruitful. However, living life is just as if not more amazing, in the past 4-5 months I have been to or done: - 2 music festivals 3-day festivals - 3 concerts one was a two night concert - 2 holiday festivals you know the ones with bouncy houses and lots of holiday type booths - New restaurants in my city - Booked a trip to Vegas for next year for 5 days with friends - Went to local art shows and got art for my apartment - Attended a 4 day nerdgeek conventionNow before that I rarely did anything other than the occasional eating out once a week. I can say the past 5 months were amazingly fun. So what did I learn? Saving is great, but watch your saving and make sure your saving:fun ratio is correct. Definitely dont do what I did and make your ratio 95:5 95 saving mentality, 5 fun mentality.Just thought I would share my experience from getting away from saving and enjoy life a little bit, dont be consumed to the point you miss out on things.EDIT: This is mainly aimed at saversinvestors. If youre seriously in debt, a 95:5 ratio as stated above is probably where you need to be at the moment till the debt is resolved. Past that, vive la vida!Assistant: Ill just tell you this right now: youll regret 5 days in Vegas, you reallly only need 2-3 days in that townHuman: Nah, we are going for EDC 2017, so 3 days we will barely be in Vegas. 1 day we are going to the Grand Canyon. So really we are doing 1 day in Vegas if you will.Itll be a blast!  <response>: I hope youre doing grand canyon before EDC. Highly recommend you take extra days off after EDC to recover... like 2-3 days. 