My friend said, 'I made a budget this month and I actually stuck to it.' I said, 'That's amazing! What was the key?' He said, 'I realized that every purchase I made was either a need or a want. And then I decided that everything was a need. My phone case was a need. The case for the phone case was a need. The little pouch that holds the case for the phone case was a need. I spent two hundred and forty dollars on cases and pouches. The budget is intact. I just redefined the word need.'