How Can I Cure A Spending Problem?!
Question: I can't get just one of anything. It seems like every time I find a good product- shoes, make up, etc.- it gets discontinued so I am now spending way too much and DH will FREAK if I don't
take care of it now.....
Answers: I can't get just one of anything. It seems like every time I find a good product- shoes, make up, etc.- it gets discontinued so I am now spending way too much and DH will FREAK if I don't
take care of it now.....
that's a tactic that many stores use called the "treasure hunt" method. costco, is one of many retailers that utilize this. it makes customers feel as though the product they see will not be there next time they come, so they better buy a lot of it at once before they won't be able to find it again. you're not alone, this is why many retailers switch out their inventory frequently. the best thing is to think about personal examples where you ended up buying a lot of something only to find that you found a different brand that was better, or see how much of a particular product you wasted.
so next time you're shopping and feel the impulse to buy lots and lots of something, think about other times you've done this and wha thappened.
You should instruct the free-market advocates about the habit of good products to be discontinued by the manufacturer. I've noticed that, too, in models of hiking shoes. I think the capitalists want to build INFERIOR stuff so that they WILL break, so that you WILL have to return to buy another one.
An auto mechanic friend of mine once told me that the most reliable automatic transmissions for American cars were discontinued and replaced with ones that broke down more often. The main difference between that and the discontinued styles of better shoes is that nobody except the auto mechanics knew about the discontinuance of the better designed transmissions.
Today, everything really is made to break. You can't really own permanently workable property; you have to keep buying again and again; it's like making forever rent payments to keep having working stuff, except that all the broken junk that you bought before keeps piling up as "waste."
Anyway, to cure a spending problem, just remember that most of the time when you spend money, the seller is cheating you. Not only that, the seller is exploiting workers by taking most of the money from the sale of items that he did nothing, personally, to produce. A seller makes no contribution to production, except in the negative sense of voluntarily staying out of the way and letting other people do their jobs.
Capitalists have the legal right to INTERRUPT production because they own the tools of production. But for them to take any credit for production simply because they restrain themselves from stopping the game by picking up their ball and going home is silly. It's like an artist, standing in front of a sunset, claiming the credit for creating the pretty colors in the clouds, for reason that the _he could have built a wall between that beauty and your eyes_ ...and he did not!
you can try to limit yourself by taking less money/credit cards with you when you go out. also you could try to limit how much you buy by treating yourself to something like one treat a week if you don't over spend
Try to plan a spending habit like spending only on special occasions. New isn't always better. You wont die ignoring the new stuff on the shelfs.
How about another example. You bought gba then after a year, ds is on the market then you decide to buy it as well.
Try to control it.