Chavie Lieber

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Understanding the Logic Behind ‘Girl Math’ and ‘Boy Math’ · 16 Oct 2023 podcast

And this has snowballed into this viral moment where people are talking about their discretionary spending.

And it's worth noting that even though it's called girl math, this goes across all genders.

I spoke to a source, Josh, out in Alaska, and he was telling me about how

he bought a exercise bike because he had torn his ACL and the bike was $400 and he wasn't sure about the price tag.

But then he did girl math and he said, if I ride the bike 400 times, it actually costs me a dollar to ride the bike.

And now that he's ridden the bike 4,000 times, he's riding it for a dime.

So really everyone of all genders, ages, and so on, everyone plays these little shopping riddles in their heads.

Anyone participating in the girl math trend is self-aware.

They know that a lot of this is used in a joking manner.

Obviously, anything five dollars and under is not free.

But that is to say that some of it actually does have important logic, at least when it comes to their spending.

They're trying to think about what is worth the investment or how can they stomach the amount of money that they're about to spend in a less painful way.

For some people, it is a joke.

And then for other people, it is really just justifying using money that they may or may not have.

Sure.

But if you want to use the classic free shipping example, somebody is going to have to spend $10 on shipping on their $100 purchase.

That doesn't really feel good.

But if they spend $120 and the shipping is free, that feels better to them.

It's all about the mental gymnastics that you play in your head and whether or not you feel good about that purchase.

this definitely feeds into our shopping habits and perhaps even some of the neuroses, at least in the American consumer psyche, which is, you know, how are you going to get a deal?

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