Moving can sometimes be a sad ritual love you throw throw and throw more junk away only to realize that you actually paid good cash accumulating “them”.
Let’s face it. Most of us have a little special something we like to spend money on. Whether it’s cars HDTVs luxury vacations hand bags shoes or even ice cream we simply recognize the following equation as fact.
Stuff We Love > Price We Pay
Lately I’m starting to come round on splurging. I used to think that it’s not okay to spend money on non-essentials except I don’t feel that spending a few bucks to make me happy is all that bad anymore. More truthfully I am not fearful of buying anymore. After all we job hard to secure money just so we can spend it. I think spending is okay if:
But what if you thought about it know that it’s useless but serene can’t seem to control your desires? Here’s what you should do.
Buy it.
Yes that’s right. But behind you do leave it out in a visible place in your home even after you are done with it. Some examples…
Don’t put away those shoes in the depths of your closet. Stack them neatly in your shoe racks so you see them every time you need a pair of shoes.Don’t throw away your magazines and comic books once you are done and don’t put them in a box tucked in the corner of your storage organize them in your room’s bookshelf. Once they overflow start stacking them all through (hopefully neatly).Keep the boxes of the electronics that you bought and put them in your closet so you can see them every day.You see. Part of the problem with spending is that we never truly see the consequences of our actions until it’s as well late. It’s only a couple dollars to purchase a cup of coffee but if someone will give us $100000 dollars to never have Starbucks again it will make us think twice before taking another sip. This is since in the latter case we clearly see the long semester results of our immediate actions.
Along the same lines once you start seeing how much you are starting to amass everyday you will understand just how much money you’ve spent on whatever you’ve been buying. Instead of just having an idea of how much you waste you will eventually know. Some time after you know you will start to feel it in your gut. It’s like a light bulb that turns on because only then will you be capable to determine whether you should keep buying or not.
Practicing this will be cumbersome and it will never stop you from buying something now. But it will give you a selection in the future.
I moved and we threw and gave SO MUCH away. Perhaps more appropriately put I just had a date with the trash collector.
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