Food for thought:

“It’s better to live rich than to die rich.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“It’s a wise man who lives with money in the bank; it’s a fool who dies that way.”
— French proverb

“He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.”
— John Barrymore


In short, what these quotations tell us is that there is only one ultimate purpose for money — and that is to spend it! And spending money is made more enjoyable by splurging on oneself occasionally.