Comments on: More shopping advice and the pain of parting with your stuff http://www.seattlemoneycoach.com/more-shopping-advice-and-the-pain-of-parting-with-your-stuff Financial Recovery Coach and Author Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:30:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Teresa Randall http://www.seattlemoneycoach.com/more-shopping-advice-and-the-pain-of-parting-with-your-stuff/comment-page-1#comment-185 Teresa Randall Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:59:39 +0000 http://www.womenearning.com/blog/?p=830#comment-185 Understanding this "endowment effect" can certainly help every shopper, no matter where we shop, and for every item we think we want to purchase. Now we have additional ammunition to use when entering enemy territory (i.e. BB&B, or big box stores, or cute little clothing boutiques)! Strategies like this one not only help us to save the money we work hard to earn, but also keep our homes from filling up with stuff we don't really need or want. Seeing something "cute" in a store does not necessarily mean we want it, will use it, or need it. It's good to acknowledge that something we see is beautiful, clever, useful, or even necessary, but it does not mean we have to take it home with us. Now you have given us another strategy to employ to keep money in our purses and our homes from filling up with "stuff." Thanks for making this information available to your readers! Understanding this “endowment effect” can certainly help every shopper, no matter where we shop, and for every item we think we want to purchase. Now we have additional ammunition to use when entering enemy territory (i.e. BB&B, or big box stores, or cute little clothing boutiques)!

Strategies like this one not only help us to save the money we work hard to earn, but also keep our homes from filling up with stuff we don’t really need or want. Seeing something “cute” in a store does not necessarily mean we want it, will use it, or need it. It’s good to acknowledge that something we see is beautiful, clever, useful, or even necessary, but it does not mean we have to take it home with us. Now you have given us another strategy to employ to keep money in our purses and our homes from filling up with “stuff.”

Thanks for making this information available to your readers!

]]> By: Linda Waldon http://www.seattlemoneycoach.com/more-shopping-advice-and-the-pain-of-parting-with-your-stuff/comment-page-1#comment-184 Linda Waldon Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:05:27 +0000 http://www.womenearning.com/blog/?p=830#comment-184 That's so true! That's why I talk about the importance of shopping with a list and sticking to the list. If you walk into BB&B without a list -- good luck! There are so many tempting things like new towels, candles, kitchen gadgets, and more, that will seem so practical and important at the time -- but you don't really NEED any of them. With clothes shopping, which is more my area, it is even more important to know exactly what piece of clothing you're looking for -- also identify the colors and style you are looking for before you walk into the store. Otherwise you will end up with a closet full of clothes that don't coordinate. And if you have a color card with you (yes, I sell them on my website!) it will REALLY help you choose the colors that make you look radiant. And you'll save money -- you will buy clothes that mix and match with the things you have at home. Great article! Thank you! Linda That’s so true! That’s why I talk about the importance of shopping with a list and sticking to the list. If you walk into BB&B without a list — good luck! There are so many tempting things like new towels, candles, kitchen gadgets, and more, that will seem so practical and important at the time — but you don’t really NEED any of them.

With clothes shopping, which is more my area, it is even more important to know exactly what piece of clothing you’re looking for — also identify the colors and style you are looking for before you walk into the store. Otherwise you will end up with a closet full of clothes that don’t coordinate. And if you have a color card with you (yes, I sell them on my website!) it will REALLY help you choose the colors that make you look radiant. And you’ll save money — you will buy clothes that mix and match with the things you have at home.

Great article! Thank you!
Linda

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