Comments on: Deals of the day sites – Avoiding impulse shopping

By: John

John — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:55:09 +0000

It would be great if our nation could learn this lesson, as no one on Capitol Hill (save a select few) seems to realize that these debts will only come back to haunt us.

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By: Pamela @ Frugal Vet Tech (Student)

Pamela @ Frugal Vet Tech (Student) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:33:43 +0000

Mmmm, I’m dreaming of how many pictures I could take if I had an 8 GB card for my camera (provided my camera could handle such a card, and I don’t think it could). I could snap photos for hours before I needed to empty the card…

Anyway, Craig mentioned something I have to tell myself often – “Just because there is a deal doesn’t mean you have to buy”. We were grocery shopping the other night and pasta sauce was $1/jar. $1/jar! I wanted to buy some. Hubby said no, because we already had 8 jars of pasta sauce at home. But it was sooo hard to pass up $1 pasta sauce.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:18:16 +0000

Just because there is a deal doesn’t mean you have to buy. It’s more about training your mentality to not buy things. For example I enjoy dvd’s and always get suckered into buying movies that are on sale that I really have no need for, or will even watch. I have done a better job of training myself to not go for those impulse buys. Just takes patience. What do you think?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:26:25 +0000

Oh, yeah… there are definitely those moments where I argue with myself over these deals. “wow, that’s a great deal. I gotta get that.”
“But do I really need it. I mean, I’ve gotten along without it for this long.”
“Yeah, but come on! I would definitely use that! And I’m not going to find it anywhere cheaper than this.”
“Okay, but wouldn’t it be better to put that money towards paying off the debt.”
“Yeah, but…”
And it goes on like that for approximately 24 hours, and then the deal is gone. 99% of the time, I haven’t bought it.

But then, as I mentioned in my own blog recently, sometimes I do buy it and 2 days later a very similar item pops up even cheaper, which is a whole different kind of frustration.