{"id":21332,"date":"2026-08-09T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=21332"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:20:45","slug":"the-obsession-with-lifestyle-creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/08\/09\/the-obsession-with-lifestyle-creep\/","title":{"rendered":"The obsession with lifestyle creep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She spent $1100 on a birthday party for her 1-year old. And complains everything is too expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Economically illiterate? Or a troll post intended as satire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s impossible to have a \u201creasonable\u201d budget for just about anything at this point.<br><br>It\u2019s my youngest daughter\u2019s 1st birthday. <br><br>So like any decent parents, we\u2019re throwing her a birthday party.<br><br>We are inviting family and friends and with all the little kids running around these\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bqwtTNQ1AO\">pic.twitter.com\/bqwtTNQ1AO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alex Forbes (@AlexForbesOps) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexForbesOps\/status\/2086164855266890202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can visit most parks for free. She&#8217;s catered the lunch! And you don&#8217;t need to spend $100 on helium balloons. It&#8217;s crazy how catered lunches at a rented facility costs so much more than home made birthday stuff at a local public park free picnic area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Then again, this might be a troll post making a mockery of the insane economic innumeracy posted on X every day.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hope this X post is a troll meant as satire. Otherwise, we are toast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,355,357,367,359,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-mill-crap","category-content-mill-click-bait","category-daily-doomer","category-demographics-generations","category-everything-is-awful","category-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21344,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions\/21344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}