пятница, 26 декабря 2008 г.

Shopping and crisis

Today when we experience financial and economic crisis, we must reconsider our shopping habits. We must save money as it is not known what we may face tomorrow. Money should be spent reasonably. However, we all are so accustomed to shopping that it will be very difficult to restrain our buying habits. Try to reconsider what you buy. The matter is that many people buy absolutely unnecessary things. I think that it is not worth enumerating them. Each person can make this analysis without outside assistance. The psychological aspect of buying things is crucial in shopping. We buy things not because we really need them, but because we like them. The scheme is very simple here: you enter a shop, see a beautiful thing and buy it only because you like it. When you buy it you don’t think what you should do with it. You simply buy it to get satisfaction form the process of buying and from the fact of possessing this thing. Then you come home, look at it carefully again and again and experience joy and happiness. However, with the lapse of time or very soon you forget about this thing and it becomes useless and unnecessary for you. It will be more right to say that it was useless and unnecessary form the very moment of its buying, but you understand it not at once but after some time passes. This mostly refers to clothes. A woman can buy a blouse, for example, and wear it only once. If you are not the wealthy, if you are an ordinary person, you shouldn’t buy clothes to wear it once. this is a manifestation of squandering and stupidity.