So uh. If you've recently been poor to the point of worrying how you're gonna make rent and then you suddenly have enough money coming in again that you're safe is there some kind of trick for shutting up the poverty brain that keeps worrying about the money running out?
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@eniko Personally I ended up using a trick that a friend mentioned - mentally convert every price to "how many hours do I need to work to pay for this" (based on hourly rate as a freelancer, in my case).
It was originally meant to more easily reason about "is this worth spending money on if it helps me do my work more effectively", but I've also found it to help to ingrain a more accurate idea into my brain of what my *actual* financial situation is.
This does require having some sort of hourly rate to convert to. I guess if you don't work hourly it can be sort of approached by doing (totalMonthlyIncome/hoursWorkedPerWeek) or something like that?
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@joepie91 although estimating how much will come in monthly for the rest of the year kinda helps but it's just a guess so only so much
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@eniko Yeah I was afraid of that :( I figured I'd mention it anyway, in the hope that maybe you could find some way to adapt the same idea to your situation, that I couldn't think of.
I guess you could take a conservative estimate of monthly income and go from there, it may be better than nothing, even if it's not really accurate? In case no better idea comes along, that is.
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@joepie91 that won't work for me cause my time spent doesn't correlate to certain amounts of money in any even remotely reliable way >_>