Do you ever see yourself buying useless crap?

Started by invisible_light June 19th, 2012 4:47 PM
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Well, do you? I certainly do.

I have a problem with controlling myself when it comes to buying things. Like, I'll go into Target to get some toilet paper, and I'll walk out with toilet paper, socks, body wash, shampoo, hair gel, a new toothbrush, a clock, a desk lamp, that CD, a mop, and some Starbucks on the way out.

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I don't tend to do that, actually. I think really hard about what I want before I spend even 2 dollars on something, and decide if it's worth spending money on it.


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I'm usually really bad about this but I've been making a conscious effort to stop myself in the last ~8 months and it's been working, so hopefully I can keep it up.

I think hitting a pretty low point with my bank account was a pretty good incentive/reminder that I don't have disposable income and can't throw money around as much as I'd like to. :x So now I don't let myself talk myself into buying useless things anymore, though I still eat out/order in a lot more than I need to.


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I don't. I kind of wish I did, but I don't. Sometimes I come across obscure things (figurines for example). I've never bought one because they serve no purpose. I wouldn't use it for anything.

Not to say I don't buy fun stuff. But I try to save up for something that's both fun and functional.

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Nah. I tend to think about what I buy, and more often than not, I save my money up for something I really want. The only thing I really splurge on is plushies. I can't pass up a Pokemon plushie I don't have. v_v But I collect them and use them to decorate where I keep my gaming systems and such, so they're not really a waste of money in Syd world.
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I never buy useless crap, mostly because I can never find any useless crap I want haha - every time a book, game or DVD that I want comes out, I'll buy it - but I don't really consider that useless crap.

Usually the one time I do buy what I consider useless crap is when I go to the local comic book store with my friend. She's a fan of comics so I take her there once every few weeks to pick up her latest editions and it's a fledgling business and I usually feel bad for it because they're trying really hard to survive. So I find some Pokemon figurines and I buy them lmao. Now he calls me "Pokemon guy".
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Oh God I'm horrible at this. They have this giant beauty store so close to where I work and I buy crap from there all the time now. I used to go to this little hippy shop and buy crap. I would go to Target and find useless crap. i'm horrible. ;;
BUT, if I tend to not use it, I'll give it to friends or my little cousin.
But yeah, when I'm married I'm forcing my husband to have a separate bank account so we aren't completely broke due to my impulse buying. ;;

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I've got some things that I didn't think were useless when I bought them that I think are useless now, but that's more of a case of my growing out of them. I usually don't buy things when I first think I want them. I force myself not to buy stuff until after I've had a little time to think about whether I'd really use it.

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I do buy a lot of stuff I don't really need (as a necessity), not at stores I do it all the time online. Even if I only had $10 (US Dollars) I'll spend them right away.
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Oh I do all the time. I went into Target a month or so ago for a computer mouse because mine broke due to sibling action. I came out with an umbrella, a packet of drinking straws, a miniature badminton set, a small blended vanilla bean creme drink, two bags of chocolate chips, a can of frosting and a mouse. No exaggeration; that's all listed straight from the receipt.

I am absolutely useless at money management. :x
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Useless is in the eye of the beholder. With that said, I'm pretty sure my parents would consider the various anime pencil boards, figurines, old car and hotel literature, and such that I've bought off eBay to be "useless" in their eyes.

However, in brick and mortar stores, I'm much less likely to make impulse buys of stuff I don't need, for the simple reason that I need to save my money to buy the "useless" stuff off eBay that I do want :P And the stores in town don't carry any anime stuff.

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Not so much lately. I don't feel like I have the money to blow on frivolous things.

When it comes to physical items, anyway. I am bad about budgeting money for food. I need to learn to make more meals so I can make a list and stick to it. I'll go to the grocery store several times a week for little things, which adds up over time. D:

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I am an impulse food buyer, but that's about it. If I walk past a shop and there's something smelling really delicious, I'll probably end up purchasing it if I can't have a free sample! Even if I'm not hungry... I just really like buying food, for some reason! As far as 'useless crap' goes, I'm the last person that would buy stuff like that. I don't have a lot of 'stuff' in any event, and most of my money that's not going on bills/rent is going on food or DVDs in one way or another, so there's no real incentive for me to buy any useless crap. to be honest.

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Yup, alllllllllllllllllllllll the time. The last one I bought was one of those pin art things where you have the two sheets of plastic and tonnes of pins between them then you put your hand or stuff into it and it keeps the shape. But yeah, I buy absolutely tonnes of useless rubbish haha.
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Ugh, I guess you could call it this, I buy things I think are useful and without thinking (impulse shopping I think it's called?) and usually ending up regretting the money I spent. I hate it (and it happened just recently too :P) this is why I am not looking forward to the credit card only world, I'll go broke fast...

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Depends on what it is. When I go to Japantown or Chinatown, I never fail to see something I like but if it's too expensive I deal with it and leave it there.

I do have those moments where I go, "I will save up my money to eventually buy a car!" *buys a 3DS a few days later* =w=
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I actually don't like having a lot of material possessions. The things I still want to own (I have a lot of useless crap from a long time ago but I'm getting rid of it) are all useful things that I can't make use of without owning them. For instance I never see myself buying books or DVDs because I would rather use the library for books and Netflix for DVDs. But I buy a lot of video games. Even then, though, I just buy them used because I see no reason to buy something brand new for 150% of the price I could pay on something that's in perfect condition only without the shrink wrap (all my games are perfectly functional and my 3DS that I got on eBay for <$100 doesn't have a single scratch on it). So I think I'm actually really good at controlling my money. I don't like having things and even when I do want something I just buy it used. How savvy of me. xD
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