The whole purpose of advertisers is to sell their products...to you. They do a pretty good job at it too! Why else would you come home from the store with something you bought totally on impulse because you saw it advertised in a magazine or on TV or on the radio and it looked like it might come in handy? Or, you saw it demonstrated at someplace like Costco or worse yet, you ate a sample of it at Costco? That last one is my particular downfall :) Just one taste of --- and I have to buy an entire bag of it, even though before I walked into the store, I never knew it existed.
At times like this, we get to practice the dying art of self control. It only takes our minds seconds to process whether we need a product or not. We
can resist the urge and put the product down. Just because we try a sample of something doesn't mean we're obligated to buy it (although that's what we're supposed to do).
Ask yourself -
"Do I need it?"
"Do I have a place for it?"
"Does it duplicate something I already have?"
"Does this encourage my family to eat healthy?" (for food purchases)
"What would happen if I didn't buy it?"
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| Do you REALLY need more Lego's? Ok, well, I guess you can never have too many Lego's :) |
There aren't many products that pass all the questions. Too many homes are filled with gadgets and impulse items that take up space that could be used for things that you really do use. Not only that but when we buy on impulse, we spend money that could be better used elsewhere.
In the well known words of William Morris, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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