Things are everywhere. It calls you everywhere you look and say: “This will make your skin look better than ever!” Or “This gives you the energy you need!” Or “This will look like So Good in your house! “They sound So credible at the moment.
But advertisers exaggerate the usefulness of a product enormously while playing on your uncertainties. And you pay the price.
So how do you stop buying things you don’t need? And why are you doing it?
1. Know your triggers.
Those purchases with stress shopping are correct. And a large part of avoiding those costs is the removal of the triggers that make them more likely.
Think of the last few times you bought something that you didn’t need and ask some questions:
- What did you feel before and after the purchase?
- What did you try to escape or prevent you from thinking about it?
- How long did it take before you returned to your emotional basis of the baseline?
- When you arrive there, how desperate do you go to another high?
- What are your go-to apps, shops or products?
Only when you know Your triggers can take steps to minimize them.
2. Purge your inbox
One of those triggers can be e -mails with special deals, especially if you are a bargain. Ask yourself when you are most vulnerable for promotional e -mails for products that you will most likely buy.
Then make fun of all the e -mails of the retail trade – especially those who seduce you with things that look good, but that you don’t really need.
3. Go for quality above quantity
Those special “deals” in the season of your local supermarket are usually items of low quality. Chances are that it is a matter of weeks before they end up in the trash or in a donation box.
Instead, if you really need an item such as what you see in those discounts, do some research and search for something of higher quality. Instead of trying to get a load of semi-not-not items for less money, you concentrate on finding a few high-quality items that come along.
4. Become clear about your values and goals
If you know what is important for you, you are less likely to shop brands or stores that do not share your values. Otherwise it is too easy to justify to take advantage of any “mega -buying” or bargain that appears in an advertisement, an e -mail or in your mailbox.
Become clear about what you want to achieve this year or in the next three years. Then make a priority to only support companies that share your values and support your goals.
5. Find a support system
Talk to someone about your spending pattern and what is behind them. Get your friends and supporting family members. Some of them may have some useful insights on how to stop buying things you don’t need.
Call in their help in controlling your urges to spend money on things that are currently seductive, but that will eventually end up in the garbage bin (or donating a stack).
6. Set a budget and follow your expenses.
The more aware you are of the money that comes in and comes, the easier it is to see if you can afford something you want. Unless you are familiar with the increasing debts, you must spend less than you earn. Budgeting can help with that.
It gives you at least a detailed breakdown of what you earn, what you spend and how you spend it. And seeing the impact of your expenses (for example the increasing credit card defenses) can motivate you to take corrective measures.
7. Plan your shopping
Unplanned shopping is an Achilleshiel for most of us, especially if we are tired, stressed or need a pick-up.
If you have set up a budget and know how much you can afford every month, you can plan your pleasure around the things you want the most. Give yourself enough time to consider thinking which items will give you the most pleasure.
Set specific days, times and spending limits and you will be less likely to go overboard.
8. Find other ways to stimulate your mood
Shopping should not be the only way you know how to make yourself feel better. What the reason you feel low, consider the following cunts without costs:
- Go for a walk.
- Make yourself a favorite food or drink
- Play music that calms you or gives energy
- Do a power nap (not always possible, we know)
- Call or text a friend or supportive family member.
9. Put a waiting time on
If you like something that you like, but don’t really need, force yourself to leave it in your shopping cart for at least three days.
Close the tab or leave the store to get away from the temptation. Set a day and time to visit your shopping cart again after that 72 hours has risen.
Chances are that your interest in that item will slightly reduce for new discoveries. If they are not necessary either, you will impose the same waiting time.
10. Pretend you are moving
Take the inventory of what you have and separate the stuff that you do not need, use or love. Use the Marie Kondo method, if that works for you, or take the space per room – as long as you go through it everything.
When you’re done, take the time to appreciate your newly established space. And decide what it really needs (if there is something) before you shop more.
11. Be honest about Why You buy things you don’t need
Usually, when you buy things that you don’t really need, you don’t think about the items in your shopping cart.
You think of specific changes that you want to see in your life or in yourself or that is now a clearer or younger-looking skin, the attention of your falling in love or a chance of a better life.
The clearer you see what you Real Because, the easier it is to see how bad that all that stuff is to offer it.