Flexing money you don’t have is renting attention and paying for it with stress.

Buying something to be seen with it is a short lease. The attention lasts about a week, the payments last a lot longer, and in the meantime you are doing math in your head every time somebody suggests going out. Nobody watching can see that part, which is the trap. The look is public and the pressure is private.

Separate wanting a thing from wanting to be seen with it. Wait two weeks on anything you would post about before you would use it. If it still matters then, it was actually yours to want.