A person obsessed with looking rich can become poor in everything money cannot replace.

The pursuit of looking wealthy consumes exactly what money cannot buy back. Time, attention, health, closeness with people who do not care what you drive. It is possible to spend decades furnishing an impression and end up genuinely short in every category that money has no access to.

Check one recent significant purchase and ask honestly who it was for. If the answer is an audience, notice what it cost in the currencies that do not restock. Then make the next one differently.