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 I spend Bitcoin! Not huge amounts, and I try to purchase things that, if the BTC price skyrockets in the future, feel like they're still valuable to me in my life (for instance, I bought a suspension upgrade on a car I own, which increases the quality of my life and if it turns out it "cost me" a lot in the future, I'll still enjoy the smooth ride).

I have two DCAs for Bitcoin.  
One for self-custody stacking and not spending.  
The other that stays on an exchange connected to a debit card that spends from my Bitcoin balance. 

The latter is _sort of pointless_ because the merchants are still getting USD, but it feels aligned to me to be spending some Bitcoin. Ideally, those merchants would take BTC directly and not require this debit card runaround, but until lightning gets there and merchants start coming around, it's partially in the right direction.  
At least people sometimes see the Bitcoin logo on the card and occasionally ask about it. 

The suspension upgrade was a proper onchain payment and that felt WAY more exciting than the daily debit card purchases. 

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 I recently did a major suspension upgrade on my daily driver where the factory suspension was worn out. Money well spent on my quality of life and safety.

Being too much of a miser is just as wrong as never saving.