Lifestyle creep, or lifestyle inflation, occurs when items you once considered luxury become necessities. Just like the phrase implies, lifestyle creep starts to impact your life slowly, over a span of time. Often, without you realizing it. It could be adding a few premium channels, upgrading your car, or moving to a new apartment or house. All of a sudden, you're spending more when you're booking hotels and flights. The idea is, you've increased your monthly fixed costs with