Sam Parr Funded a $20,000 Guilt-Free Account Strictly for High-End Clothing
Sam Parr · 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples · Jan 6, 2025 · at 46:30
Host Sam Parr explains how setting up an autonomous personal account helped him manage spending guilt over high-end Japanese clothing.
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“And so I put 20 grand into an account because I was like, here, I'm newly into, somewhat newly into clothing, and I got interested in, like, the craftsmanship. And a lot of, like, this Japanese shit that I love, it's, like, pretty expensive. Like, it's, like 600 dollars for, like, a button-up shirt, but, like, it, I'm just, like, deeply fascinated by what I'm reading, and I just want to, like, feel and touch it, and it's interesting to me, but I would feel a sense of guilt around it, so I was like, look, I've allocated 20,000 dollars. I could spend this guilt free, and so I will spend it.”
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