Sometimes spending "more" isn't dictated by wanting a bunch of small things but rather because one component of a lifestyle is expensive. For example, we have friends building a new home in northern Wisconsin. They love to fish, boat and kayak and would have preferred to have a home on a large lake. But lake lots and taxes/maintenance on lake homes are very expensive up there and would have easily added $15k to their annual expenses. (That's a lot of rice cookers every year.) So they are building on a 3 acre wooded lot instead to stay within their SWR.
They're happy with what they're doing but I'm not sure it's The Good Life. He confided in me recently that he'd sure like to be building on the lake.......
I think that sometimes the thrill of LBYMing as an end in itself can wear thin in retirement. While DW and I are certainly frugal livers (or we wouldn't be FIRE'd), I admit that we'd rather go on a camping trip than sit at home relishing the fact that we didn't spend the money. the act of not spending just doesn't generate the thrill for us that it used to when we were accumulating in order to FIRE.
When we were accumulating, friends might invite us to join them for dinner at a restaurant we like and we'd say no thanks. We'd put the $50 we saved into the FIRE account and actually get goose bumps over our good fortune of being $50 closer to FIRE. Now if friends call and invite us to join them for dinner and we don't go because the budget is tight that month and we don't feel we should spend the $50, I'm truly disappointed. Time passes and things change....... DW has been retired 8 yrs. Almost 5 yrs for me.