My Smith Family Budget Reductions Strategy #11 is easy to understand but so very hard to execute because I like to buy new things. I want to buy new things. I feel entitled to them. It's ridiculous, really. Here is a truth: I don't need to buy new things very often, and you probably don't either. In most cases, we just simply want to scratch the itch.
Owen Ray's Easter basket is a perfect example. Do you know that every year I get it in my head that Owen Ray needs a new one... needs. I don't know why. He's never mentioned it. He seems very fond of his little alligator/dinosaur/green thing, and it's been kickin' along just fine for 4 years. Still, year after year, come Easter time, I will head to the basket section and begin the exhilarating process of picking out the absolute, perfect, knock-his-socks-off basket. Why? No clue, but so help me I will leave with a brand spankin' new basket and a shopper's high.
Then something clicks. My shopping cart and I make a sharp turn and head in the other direction. This is clearly a Joseph and Potiphar's wife scenario, and that conniving Easter basket has got my cloak.
Here is my encouragement to you, my shopping friend: run, run like the wind.
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