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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on May 12, 2012, 07:14:58 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1128938
Oh my.
Flaxbee (10,650 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7 compulsive shopping traps
I was never a huge shopper, but I used to (not anymore) be a brand snob... I've never, ever been a gadget person, though.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/7-compulsive-shopping-traps-we-fall-into.html
Here are seven of the most common compulsive-shopping traps and tips on how to avoid them:
Compulsive shopping as a hobby or sport
Cruising for deals online
Having to own the latest technology
Mistaking shortcuts for savings
Buying the brand
Confusing 'clearance' with 'necessity'
Taking couponing to the extreme
fizzgig (15,411 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. i'm a brand snob for a few things
mostly paper products and peanut butter, but i recently gave up my brand snobbery on mayo because it just got too damned expensive. i'm fine with store brand on everything else.
Flaxbee (10,650 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. I'm a brand snob if it means the product was sustainably produced.
Actually, I'm a brand slut, I guess you could say. I'll jump from brand to brand without any loyalty whatsoever if I find a product that is produced more ethically / sustainably than whatever I'd used before.
Yeah, yeah.
Sure, sure.
The flaxseed primitive actually buys what's cheap.
Curmudgeoness (7,023 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. Good list. I especially agree with confusing clearance with necessity.....or actually confusing anything with necessity. We all buy things that we don't need sometimes. And I even enjoy some of those purchases. But it is so easy to think that a clearance is a must-have. I have changed some of my opinion on clearances to keep from being enticed---these are things that no one else wanted, so why should I want them!
Then again, if I really do need something, clearance is the way to go!
Flaxbee (10,650 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. yup. I'll check out clearance items if I happen to walk by them - and if there is good shampoo, or something else we'll eventually use, I'll consider buying it. And sometimes it will encourage me to try certain foods I'd have passed by otherwise. But otherwise, I see no need to buy something just because it has been marked down, especially if I've never wanted it before.
franksolich finds the best way to save money on shopping is to do it as little as possible, and as quickly as possible.
Sometimes when I go to a store, I'm in-and-out in three minutes, max.
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I take clearance racks seriously. I find the cutest outfits from the Kohl's, Target and Old Navy clearance sections. I once got a pair of khaki pants for $5 and a t-shirt for a $1 at Old Navy. It was a $6 outfit! :)
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I take clearance racks seriously. I find the cutest outfits from the Kohl's, Target and Old Navy clearance sections. I once got a pair of khaki pants for $5 and a t-shirt for a $1 at Old Navy. It was a $6 outfit! :)
An undeniable win !
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I've noticed a lot of Yahoo! stories are geared towards low IQ Obama voters, and as evidenced by this thread, they soak it up like a sponge. Making a liberal feel guilty is easier than shooting fish in a barrel. I shop for clothes in a name-brand consignment shop because I like spending the money I earn that I am "allowed" to keep wisely. I do buy things on clearance if I know I will need them in the future. Of the other 7 "traps", if you are too stupid not to know to avoid them, you are probably in the SEIU.
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I've noticed a lot of Yahoo! stories are geared towards low IQ Obama voters, and as evidenced by this thread, they soak it up like a sponge. Making a liberal feel guilty is easier than shooting fish in a barrel. I shop for clothes in a name-brand consignement shop because I like spending the money I earn that I am "allowed" to keep wisely. I do buy things on clearance if I know I will need them in the future. Of the other 7 "traps", if you are too stupid not to know to avoid them, you are probably in the SEIU.
I buy my daughter's winter clothing from clearance racks in the summer. Never failed us. It has saved us a lot of money.
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Sometimes when I go to a store, I'm in-and-out in three minutes, max.
My too, I despise supermarkets with a vengeance and in particular the manner in which they try to sell me all manner of things I neither want nor need. I tend to have a significant shop delivered every two or three weeks, and then make a quick visit on the way home from work on the other weeks. My biggest time (and thus money) saver is a list - never go into a supermarket without one, which I organise, roughly speaking, in the order that things are laid out in the shop.
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And never go into the grocery store hungry....
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I've noticed a lot of Yahoo! stories are geared towards low IQ Obama voters, and as evidenced by this thread, they soak it up like a sponge. Making a liberal feel guilty is easier than shooting fish in a barrel. I shop for clothes in a name-brand consignment shop because I like spending the money I earn that I am "allowed" to keep wisely. I do buy things on clearance if I know I will need them in the future. Of the other 7 "traps", if you are too stupid not to know to avoid them, you are probably in the SEIU.
Would that make them SEIUpid? :rimshot:
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And never go into the grocery store hungry....
Or get anywhere near a bake shop.
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And never go into the grocery store hungry....
Just imagine the problems some of us have when walking into the hardware store / gun shop / tackle shop....
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Just imagine the problems some of us have when walking into the hardware store / gun shop / tackle shop....
PREACH IT BROTHER!! Or a car parts swap meet.
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Just imagine the problems some of us have when walking into the hardware store / gun shop / tackle shop....
:drool: