Second thoughts

We should always think twice about the purchases we make.

When i used to go shopping with one of my good friends, i would always ask her to give her possible purchases a second thought, and/ or hound her with questions like, do you really need it? what are you going to use it for? are you planning to use it more than once? etc. or the other tactic i would use would be to ask my friend to think about putting off the purchase of a particular item and if she still wants that particular item after a week or two then she should go through the purchase.

Trent over at the simple dollar offers another question to think about before making a purchase, he says "you should ask yourself if you will be using the item until it truly wears out. if you're not sure or are pretty sure you won't.. do you really need that item?" Doesn't this get you thinking?

The underlying concept here is that the price of the purchase should be less than worth of the benefit derived from the item (or at least the price should be equal to the benefit). Are you prepared to shell out an X sum of money so that we can use a piece of clothing once? or are we going to spend our hard earned money on something that costs much more than the benefit we can get from it?

Think about it!

Do you guys give your purchases second thoughts before buying them? Share your answers in the comments! Thanks!