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Understanding your resist rate in Cost Me

Your savings total tells you how much you kept. Your resist rate tells you how often you win. Here's how to read it kindly.

Your savings total tells you how much you kept. Your resist rate tells you how often you win. Together they paint a fuller picture of your habit. Here is what your resist rate is and how to read it without beating yourself up.

What the resist rate is

Your resist rate is the share of considered purchases you chose not to buy. If you faced ten urges and resisted seven, your rate reflects that. It is a measure of consistency, sitting alongside your lifetime savings number.

Why it is worth watching

A big savings total can come from one huge resist or a hundred small ones. The rate shows the pattern behind the total — whether resisting is becoming your default or still a coin flip. Building that consistency is the real goal.

How to read it kindly

  1. Treat it as a trend, not a grade. The direction matters more than any single day.
  2. A dip is information — check your spending patterns to see what tripped you.
  3. A logged buy lowers the rate but is not a failure — see logging a purchase without guilt.

Nudge it up

The simplest lever is the 48-hour vault. Parking more borderline buys gives urges time to fade, and faded urges turn into resists.

The takeaway

Your resist rate shows how often you choose to save, not just how much. Read it as a trend, learn from the dips, and let the vault do the heavy lifting.

How this helps you in Cost Me

This explains the resist rate in Cost Me — how consistently you choose to save — sitting alongside your lifetime-savings number and your logged spending patterns.

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