20 Unique Ways to Change Your Spending Habits

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It’s easy to learn spending habits that are profligate, and harder to cut them back and stamp them out. As Five Year Fire Escape shows us in this guest post, there are several different techniques you can use to activate, or re-energize, your frugal gland.

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You want to start living a frugal life and learn how to stop buying things, or how to stop buying stuff you don’t need. The very last person you should look to is my neighbor. Between you and me, I’m starting to think he also needs a bit of an intervention – I swear there’s an Amazon box on his doorstep every other day!

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20 Ways To Rid Yourself of the “Buying Stuff” Habit

Ultimately, the purpose of a goal is to give you something to work towards and a sense of direction. When you focus on that particular goal, you’ll be able to weigh whatever purchase you are considering against it. In other words, ask yourself if that item will make you happier than reaching the goal you’ve set.

The thing about mailing lists is that all these companies you’ve shown interest in or supported before will keep flashing all their products at you and you’ll start thinking you need them. But you don’t.

Now this is a task for the brave. You’ll have to start by actually decluttering and separating your items based on what you actually use and what’s just been parking there for what feels like centuries.

If you’re still struggling with how to stop buying stuff, my advice to you is to stop being so impulsive. Most of the time, all the clutter you accumulate are things that you bought with no intention, either because you bumped into them, they were on sale, or you think to yourself, “Hey, maybe I’ll need this one day.”

Once you understand that life is about more than material things and possessions, things become a bit clearer. There are purchases that will make you a better person, but that new golf set that you bought to add to your other three probably won’t.

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20 Unique Ways to Change Your Spending Habits

It’s easy to learn spending habits that are profligate, and harder to cut them back and stamp them out. As Five Year Fire Escape shows us in this guest post, there are several different techniques you can use to activate, or re-energize, your frugal gland.

20 Ways To Rid Yourself of the “Buying Stuff” Habit

Get a Goal

The thing about mailing lists is that all these companies you’ve shown interest in or supported before will keep flashing all their products at you and you’ll start thinking you need them. But you don’t.

Remove Yourself from Mailing Lists

Now this is a task for the brave. You’ll have to start by actually decluttering and separating your items based on what you actually use and what’s just been parking there for what feels like centuries.

Sell What You Have

Defer Purchases for One Week

Once you understand that life is about more than material things and possessions, things become a bit clearer. There are purchases that will make you a better person, but that new golf set that you bought to add to your other three probably won’t.

Realize Buying Things Won’t Make You Better

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