I find myself struggling with my own thirftiness all the time. Being price conscious and appraising the value of an item is something my mother trained me to do early on, and now it consumes me almost to a fault. On some things, I find I have very little self control (like my growing Splinterlands collection for example), but for the majority of things I analyze every last cent.

I do all the food shopping for me and my partner, I know most of the prices for the produce and grocery goods. But when we go out shopping together, there is always drama because I feel like the items she picks out aren't good value. There's a cheaper product, there's a healthier product, it is always something. In a way, I wish I was able to be more frivolous with general spending since these small unpleasantries grow to be more over time. At thr end of the day I am trying to help, but in practice it just feels controlling. I need to find better balance to providing opinions versus overruling purchases in the name of cost cutting.