Over the weekend I went shopping to a large outlet mall with some friends visiting from interstate. During the shopping trip, which lasted about 2hrs, they spent close to $1000 on clothing and other merchandise. I was a bit flabbergasted that they could spend so much so fast, with little apprehension. I asked my friend, whom I knew was not particularly rich and quite frugal, how they afforded this expensive and rapid shopping trip.



He laughed and told me, "Andy, simple. I saved for 3 to 4 months before this trip, made a list of things we needed and most importantly only brought the budgeted amount of cash for the shopping trip so that we don't spend what we cannot afford. So it felt good to buy the things we had researched and not worry about finding a better deal elsewhere"

I thought about this a bit more and was surprised how simple and straight forward a solution to effective and stress free shopping this was. I'll be trying this going forward based on the above strategy with a couple of variations to increase my purchasing power.

 

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