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Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Spend Money On Yourself
As you may already know, I believe in financial freedom. My goal is to ease your mind about finances and income and, honestly, how you should just be living your life. That does mean treating yourself from time-to-time because that’s a pretty big part of living your life.
Take it from one 29-year-old London-based finance coach, Ellie Austin-Williams. She’s very honest about her love of throwing out a very large chunk of her money on things. Some people would probably call these things “silly.”
Ellie has a £150-a-month gym membership and she recently paid £450 on a Dyson Airwrap. Let’s not forget, she also rents an apartment in London, the 6th most expensive city to live in. Not a cheap lifestyle.
How does she do it?
Ellie runs a pretty popular blog called This Girl Talks Money… where she talks a whole lot about money… and really emphasizes ways to save up and get out of debt. She still has a social life and a great time and she wants you to, as well.
She wants the topic of financial education to not be such a scary thing for a younger audience to read about.
This shocks her own audience more than anyone. Millennials tend to freak out a little bit when it comes to talking about money. To be fair, they’re facing some harsh…