As stuff slowly begins to accumulate in my rented apartment, I have been thinking about my current strategy for buying items. Unless urgent or a food item, I usually put off purchasing something for months and in some cases, even years. They slowly sit in my 'wish list' to see whether I still desire them, and rarely ever splurge on a sale. I never add anything to a list that I can't afford outright. The benefits include having less junk lying around my house and a calmer cleaner environment.
Coming to the US, I find myself spending more time looking at deals and flexing my credit muscles. Yesterday, I splurged and bought 2 knives on sale on amazon, without doing my usual 2 hours of research. I was lucky to have bothered at all, and I found out after the fact that the specific purchase was not in my best interest. This was in addition to a replacement bicycle tire I had purchased a week earlier, which I had ordered after misreading one of the measurements. In the case of the former, Amazon cancelled my order in time, and in the latter, Amazon refunded me without even needing me to return the mistaken purchase. I was lucky and grateful for how things worked out, but perhaps I should stick to my older methods for the time being.
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