Buying something you do not need

Now this is something that I know I do, and not just because it runs in my family, my Dad being the worst about it, but because I have seen this happen to my friends as well. You walk into a store like Sephora (I am not an expert but I find that this happens most often when you are buying something such as makeup) to buy a new mascara, and just as you you find what you are looking for you see all of the other products they carry and suddenly get caught up in the salespersons explanation of a featured product that will make you "look and feel better". All of these factors suck you in, and by the time you sign your credit card receipt at the cash register you have charged $200 and have a bag of things that will supposedly make you look beautiful.

Although I have been put in that situation and I am sure many others like me have found themselves in the same debacle. This past moth though, I got caught up in buying what I didn't need because I was told that I absolutely needed it. That may sound stupid, but when you are at the car dealership getting your car serviced and a mechanic says that you need to replace your tire, or else your car is going to stop working, you listen. Obviously I gave in and told them to whatever they needed to fix it. But when it was all said and done the bill was quite expensive. This is because impulsively I though that if everything was not fixed right that second that my car would never work again. In reality, I could have taken it to another auto shop that would have been much less costly, thus saving me money. So although I technically did buy something I needed, sometimes you need to think over purchases and maybe shop elsewhere to find the best thing. Buying something you don't need is very similar to impulse buying for me I can now see.

How to avoid buying things you do not need