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Trying to quantify the psychological value of our experiences to do some kind of double entry booking that justifies our expenses seems like kind of a fools errand to me but that's pretty much what you'd have to do if you wanted to optimize your personal expenses. Time of use doesn't necessarily translate to value or make sense to amortize by. If I do something that makes me just slightly happier or even worse off many times, or I do something for a short time only once creating a memory I look back on for the rest of my life with satisfaction then obviously the single use expense was superior.

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> what you'd have to do if you wanted to optimize your personal expenses.

Yeah, it's called budgeting and being poor. Some of us try to maximize this satisfaction and lifelong memories while avoiding incurring significant personal debt on a low salary. Tradeoffs and opportunity costs abound. Of course not everyone should or would be better off being cognizant of these costs and quantities, but some of us have to be by necessity.