Comments on: What If You Just Don’t?

By: J. Money

J. Money — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:31:51 +0000

Woww never owned one before – that’s pretty impressive! I’m not sure I can give mine up, but I wouldn’t mind a more dumbed-down one since I only use 10% of its features… Fortunately at only $30/mo though I can deal :) (If you ever do pick one up, check out Republic Wireless)

By: freddy smidlap

freddy smidlap — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:47:45 +0000

one thing i’ve noticed over the years about myself is the development of a type of physical repulsion to the mass marketing and advertising for crap i don’t want. the 2 best examples are bottled water and a cell phone. for one, as a homeowner, i already “buy” clean delicious potable water every quarter. and as a never-had-a-cellphone person, it amuses and angers me a little to see a bombardment of ads where somebody is trying to get my approximately one hundred hard earned bucks a month for data so i can bury my face in one of these anti-social devices? you’re right, $, what if i just don’t?

By: J. Money

J. Money — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:05:20 +0000

In reply to Femme Cents. yup - very smart!

By: Femme Cents

Femme Cents — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:47:56 +0000

I think this is a good reminder that there are a lot of things that could be simple if we just got out of our own way. It’s a reason I’m a big fan of automating bill payments and monthly savings.

By: Oliver @ Appreneurinvestor.com

Oliver @ Appreneurinvestor.com — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:21:54 +0000

Avoid impulsive shopping as it can turn into an addiction. Buy only what you REALLY need, then see miracles happen in your bank accounts.

By: J. Money

J. Money — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:40:15 +0000

In reply to BuddyF.

I like the sound of that!

A *productive* distraction is always better than an unproductive one :)

I did the same thing with the shopping emails too back in the day… And then eventually stopped reading/consuming/signing up to anything relating to the *news* as well – it’s always so depressing and full of noise!

By: BuddyF

BuddyF — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 03:00:11 +0000

I sat back most months before I started budgeting and saving wondering how I spent so much money and what did I even spend it on. Then it came to me. My email inbox was filled every day and even sometimes hourly by sites wanting to either offer me a discount or show me the best new thing or even worse convince me that a crowdfunding idea was worth paying the money for and then in one case still never getting anything but a promise they are still working on it over a year later. The advertising emails I guess you could say were working as they wanted but really taking a drain on my cash flow.

So what did I do?? I simply unsubscribed from all the noise and distraction of the advertising emails and found that my temptations went down to almost zero. I did exactly what J Money talked about which was just stop doing it, and getting rid of the temptation. It was the best thing ever, actually life changing. Now I prioritize my money and put them towards real goals and not the latest flashy item coming across my inbox.

One funny thing though is that I think how I got through the withdraw symptoms of online shopping and coming home each day to a package in the mailbox was start to read sites like Elite Edge Money and a few others. Seems like a much better use of my time and money. Thanks J. Money!

By: J. Money

J. Money — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:10:11 +0000

In reply to Laurie@ThreeYear. Haha... sure, that works :)

By: J. Money

J. Money — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:09:50 +0000

In reply to Chris @ Keep Thrifty. I will take one beer as payment, please!

By: J. Money

J. Money — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:07:49 +0000

In reply to derek. There he is!!