My 10 New Year’s Shopping Resolutions
Lose weight. Get in shape. Get a better job. Eat right. Typical New Year’s resolutions. One quarter of the resolutions that are made are abandoned within 15 weeks of the new year.* Why? Because they’re HARD. Working out and losing weight? Hard. Getting a better job? Hard! Eating right? Someone brought donuts in to the office again. See, they fail because they are so hard.
So, here are my 10 easy-to-keep shopping resolutions:
1. Shop for fun.
2. Justify a purchase by saying how much I saved.
3. Splurge on something.
4. Scrimp on something.
5. Add to my collection of cocktail napkins.
6. Donate some clothes to charity; make room for new clothes
7. Buy something for someone I love.
8. Order more things online.
9. Browse once without buying anything.
10. Buy at least one pair of shoes this year. (I told you these weren’t hard to keep.)
Happy New Year, fellow shoppers! Here’s hoping 2007 brings you great stuff, super bargains, and lots of fun shopping experiences!
*Polivy, Janet, Herman, C. Peter.”If at First You Don’t Succeed.” American Psychologist Sept. 2002: 677-689.
New Years Resolutions, Shopping
January 1st, 2007 at 1:48 pm
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