" If you create the home that is most attuned to your life and somewhere you really enjoy being, everything benefits. And learning to be grateful for the space you have created will mean you spend less money trying to keep up with your own unrealistic expectations for how your home should look. It’s important to remind ourselves to be grateful and to think as proactively as possible about our home. I’d like to own property someday, so sacrificing on rent now and not paying for things I can’t afford is a fair exchange. Being smart about when "

― Chelsea Fagan ,