I just saw this little segment on TV that dealt with food and how people consume too much junk in their lives. The one part that was interesting was how they did a test to see whether or not people eat less if they see a visual pile of how much they ate. Sure enough, that was the case.
I was then thinking about this in terms of money. For some people I guess looking at plain numbers at the end of the day on how much you have spent does tend to encourage you to want to be wise with your money. For myself it usually makes me wonder if I got a good value for my money or not. That doesn’t mean obsessing over it but rather recognizing that at the end of the day there should be a limit on how much you spend.