Sales, sales and more sales! Have we already entered the atmosphere of unbridled shopping? Dell'esco just looking at the windows, so I don't need anything and then to go home we need a truck for our packages? So here is a handbook to avoid compulsive purchases!
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Sales, sales and more sales! Have we already entered the atmosphere of unbridled shopping? Of the Ico just looking at the windows, so I don't need anything and then to go home we need a truck for our packages? So here is a handbook to avoid compulsive purchases!
Let's clarify immediately that we will not be here to order you not to buy anything, pampering yourself every now and then is good for our mood and if we find that object that we liked so much 50% percent, so much the better.
So buying a little something is also fine, having the only goal to buy no. And it is precisely here that that thin thread begins that leads us to the irrepressible desire to take home that sweater or that pair of jeans.
So leaving the euphoria aside, let's see how not to fall into compulsive shopping, answering some simple questions.
Attention, here we are clearly not talking about compulsive shopping in the literal sense of the word, that is a behavioral addiction that must be corrected with psychological support, but only about our bad habit of being 'kidnapped by the sales'.
Index
Do I really need it?
Before throwing ourselves into the fight to the death to retrieve that pair of jeans from the bottom of the pile, we open our closet. Do we already have ten pairs? Then probably even if it costs 20 euros, we don't need that garment. Think about it for a moment and do a quick calculation: how many times have you worn each of those jeans? The answer will blow you away, because we women can have even two hundred, then you don't know why, we always go out with the same one. So we don't need the other 199.
Is it necessary to bring an ATM?
We make it a good habit, in times of sales, of going out with the necessary money. Knowing that we can only spend 30 for example, we will be forced to make choices, opting for the thing we like best or believe we need it the most. If we have an ATM in our hands and cash is really the end.
Am I shopping too much online?
The remedy is very simple: to avoid buying everything online, use your time differently: go out for a walk with friends, leave your tablet and smartphone at home or go to the gym (yes in the one where you had to register after Christmas ).
Do I really need all these things?
Learn to get rid of the superfluous as Marie Kondo teaches, who explains that tidying up and having the right number of objects at your disposal, between what we really need and what we are very attached to in a joyful and positive way, helps to live more serene and happy. Indeed, it can really change our life in a profound way, so as to solve the problem of disorder at the root.
Find the time to live to be happy
And again, it can be very useful to keep a diary of purchases to update and when you realize that you have bought useless things, try to understand why. Finally, we leave you with a beautiful phrase from Jose 'Pepe' Mujica, president emeritus of Uruguay:
“Don't waste your life in consumerism, find the time to live to be happy. You are free when you do something that you like and that gives satisfaction ".
Read also:
- Compulsive shopping: causes, symptoms and remedies
- Mujica: 'Don't waste your life in consumerism, find the time to be happy'
Dominella Trunfio
