EoR No. 3: A fresh approach to the new year and post-holiday gratitude
Plus, examining expensive hobbies and a delightful follow on Notes
Happy Sunday! As promised, this is your new weekly Embarrassment of Riches1, where I’ll share a round up of what’s been published at Healthy Rich in the past week, plus a few more fun things to catch online.
This round up is also the best place to look for Healthy Rich news and updates. I’ll kick this week off with a couple of upcoming events I’m excited to share:
My post on the subject really hit a nerve with you all, so I’m hosting a webinar on preparing your finances for a fascist regime. Register here to join the session live on Jan. 29 at 4 p.m. Eastern, and drop your questions in the Q&A on the right. Paid subscribers will also have access to the recording afterwards.
Portland, Oregon! I’ll be at Annie Bloom’s Books on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. to talk about You Don’t Need a Budget in conversation with Portland author Marian Schembari. Please come, and bring your friends! (I’d love to meet you all, and also my biggest fear is promoting a book to an empty room 🫣)
And here’s your round up…
🥑 ICYMI at Healthy Rich this week
🔗 Things to catch
I got to join
at this week to present The Case Against Budget Culture.I was delighted to talk in-depth with
on Money with Katie about trusting yourself with money, radically reimagining debt and more.- let us know you don’t have to pick up expensive hobbies just because your friends are doing it.
- is saving me from eating dinner on the couch while watching sitcoms.
I didn’t think I was ready to leave Instagram, but
’s Notes feed might be enough of a visual fix to push me over the edge 😍
💬 Let’s discuss
How does money impact the hobbies you enjoy?
What is a hobby you feel obligated to participate in? Do you spend money on hobbies you don’t really like? Are there hobbies you wish you could join in on but don’t feel like you can afford to?
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For ages the hobby others did that I didn’t want to was drinking. It was so expensive - SO EXPENSIVE - and I just didn’t get enough pleasure from it to justify the cost, but it was part of normal socialising culture so for a while in my early twenties I thought I had. I used to feel pressure to join others in buying expensive drinks at dinners etc but at some point (after learning that alcohol can cause tiny short lived depressive episodes in some people (me)) I decided the whole game was not for me and just stopped. It is so nice.
I hate skying so much, it is not hard for me to say no to it, but a lot of people still find it hard to accept. 3 years ago we did a family Christmas in the mountains because my sister was working there, and for the first time ever I loved it: I lead the group that hiked, read and cleaned the small rental while listening to music while the majority of the group was happily skying. It even gave the possibility to some people to say that they don't enjoy skying every day all day, and they stayed more often with me! I would not do that every year, but for me it is worth the money once in a while.
I went very slow on buying things for my yoga practice because it is easy to feel like you need so many things before starting and make it an expensive practice with clutter that you ended up using twice. I made it work with the clothes I owned and an old gym mattress of my husband for 6 months before upgrading and I was very proud of myself. Now I practice 4 times a week and ended up adding some small things, but only things that I really use.