10 Mistakes Shoppers Make
Why do I know these mistakes?? Probably because I have made most of them… okay all of them.
1. Go shopping because you are bored. That is the quickest way to waste money.
2. You don’t start your shopping armed with a list. If you know what you need, chances are you won’t buy recklessly.
3. You have no idea how much you have spent on your credit card this month. It’s a really good idea to keep a little piece of paper in your wallet with the total. If it’s getting out of hand, you know to pull back.
4. You know what you want and buy the first one you see. The trick is to comparison shop. Just yesterday I saw one Zen Garden for $40.00. My own cost $10.00 on sale for half off because the store was going out of business.
5.You wait to do your Christmas shopping until the last two weeks of December. While you might hit on some great sales, chances are your stress level is going to be at an all time high.
6. You buy books because you simply like to collect them. I can’t go into a bookstore without coming out with at least four. I can blame this on the my earlier library days I think. And a lot of those books… I have never opened.
7. You think you are saving money by subscribing to magazines. It sounds like a good plan, but you have no idea how many magazines I have that are still in their plastic wrapper. And it didn’t stop me from buying more magazines at the supermarket.
8. I like nothing more than shopping and having lunch in a trendy restaurant, but that can get really expensive if you do it on a weekly basis. There is such a thing as the Food Court and there are even some “healthy food” kiosks if you look hard enough.
9. Set a limit on what you are going to spend. I had to do this when I began tagging along with my husband on business trips. There was nothing else for me to do but haunt the malls while he was at the office and that got REALLY expensive. Really… set yourself a daily limit.
10. Watch the seasons. I picked up a great pair of leather boots last year for a ridiculous price because the store would rather sell them than store them for another year.
I’m sure that there are lots of little ways to stretch your dollars to make shopping even more fun, so lets hear them!! ;)
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