I've been very frugal these past couple of years for obvious reasons.

Whenever it occurs to me I need to buy something, I stop and reflect: If I wait a month or two, I can buy it more cheaply. For example, I need a couple of wooden fence panels on my property replaced, but why buy them now if I can wait a bit and buy them for half or a quarter of the price? So I come up with makeshift solutions to keep them going for a bit longer.

But I'm tired of this and looking forward to the unfolding of the bull, so I can finally take a breather, buy something nice to eat, maybe go on vacation etc. without feeling that 'fiat wh*re' guilt that the Bitcoin / Austrian / low time preference maxis have instilled in me (as grateful as I am for it).

My neighbour next door did his kitchen up recently, which made me realize how lacking his awareness was of what's going on in the world. It must have cost him 15M sats' worth. I couldn't help but wonder Why now??? It can easily wait! but I didn't say anything. I don't want him to know I know better than to incur a postponable expense in early 2024; I'd have come across as a looney and it would have been bad opsec.

At the same time I realize this is timing the market, which goes against the whole point of Bitcoin, but these sacrifices are my repentance for being relatively late (and shitcoining in my earlier days) I'm happy to make to catch up by that little bit.