Comments on: Breaking Bad Financial Habits – Impulse Purchases

By: mutuelle

mutuelle — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:21:38 +0000

The most important thing in life is self control! if you can do it you can do anything! thanks for this post!

By: Mike Pastore

Mike Pastore — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:07:07 +0000

Impulsive purchasing never fails to put anyone in bad financial debt. I think your techniques will work in helping an impulsive purchaser to minimize and eventually stop his bad habit. Another piece of advice; refrain from going to shops and malls. They always have tempting things that you could buy. Think of other activities in case you get bored.

For tips on personal finance, visit http://www.mikesmillions.com/blog.

By: Kim: Blogging for Change

Kim: Blogging for Change — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:01:11 +0000

I love #6 and try hard to keep this tip in mind. Just this weekend, I walked into a store intending to buy a wallet as a gift. The place was jam-packed with people standing in line to buy purses at 50% off. It truly was a great deal and I made it all the way up to the checkout counter with my purse before it dawned on me that I didn’t intend to buy a purse. I ended up handing the purse back to the salesperson with a sheepish “sorry, but i just got caught up in the moment.” I took my wallet and ran– before I had time to change my mind!

By: Moneymonk

Moneymonk — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:11:38 +0000

YNAB is the best !!

By: When You Own Stuff Stuff Owns You

When You Own Stuff Stuff Owns You — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:54:16 +0000

Thanks for the post! I always consider the “Opportunity Cost” for my purchases. Something frivolous I consume today is money that can’t work for me and provide something meaningful in the future.

Here is a link to my blog post about Opportunity Costs: http://gw38018.blogspot.com/2009/02/opportunity-cost.html

One “trick” I use to cut my spending is to try and keep new bills that are really crisp in my wallet because I hate parting with the nice ones. Silly, but it really works for me.

By: onyemeri

onyemeri — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:39:35 +0000

It’s also important for one to be patient with oneslf while trying to change a habit of ‘impulse purchasing’, because trying to change in one week , a habit that had been with one for years can be very frustrating; but if you ‘re patien and determined to change, then you ‘ll win. I think it’s a good article . Cheers

By: b2blocal

b2blocal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:23:14 +0000

Thanks for tips, many people do not understand so you article would be very helpful to them.

By: mutuelle

mutuelle — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:46:35 +0000

In economy it’s always the emotional side be presents, so we deal with out human nature ,which mean owning things as much as we can ,sometimes without need,this is why we should get balanced concerning spending money,”there are many things we can do ,by even not touch it or think about it “

By: syahbal

syahbal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:39:56 +0000

thanx for the technique..

By: syahbal

syahbal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:35:41 +0000

thanx for the technique…