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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Things That You Buy...and Why

A very simple answer is: "because you need it."  Very simple and true, but did it ever happen to you when there were times you finally realized that you've made the wrong decision. A mistake that the result is a waste of your hard earned money.

If we enter a shopping mall we can see lots and lots of things to buy. Sometimes if we see something which is pleasing to our eyes we just want to buy it without having a second thought even if we don't really need it. I remember my very best friend who has a cute and very smart 3 years old son.
One time, together with his son went to a shopping mall and brought his son at the toy section. Being a kid when his son saw all the beautiful toys he wants to have everything. My friend who is smarter than his kid :) pointed the other toys that his son did not notice yet. Whenever his Dad showed another toy and tell his son that it is more good than what his son is pointing, the son just follow with his eyes all the other toys that his Dad is showing until maybe because of confusion, his son doesn't want to take anything anymore. What a clever and funny Dad.

We read lots of good books about how to budget our money. Those books whose talented authors are expert economists, finance experts by proffession. However, this  topic that I want to share with you now are from my own idea about buying...after all billions of people are billions of heads with billions of ideas, isn't it? There are times that I'm being impulsive when buying things.We can't avoid sometimes to become impulsive if we see things that really attracts our eyes. In this case how do we avoid "impulsive" buying to save our money for another much more useful things that we need? I'm going to discuss just one of the ways that can help us to avoid impulsive buying and that way is thru the Internet.

Before, I don't know much about the benefits of the Internet. I have been doing Internet marketing for almost 2 years now and came to realize as I go along the real benefits of it especially to those Internet users in saving our time, avoiding to be impulsive by giving us more time to think twice before we jump of buying something. The things that we need except for the fresh fish and vegetables where we can only buy from the wet market and grocery stores are all here. We just need to be careful because there are some risks.

There's the risk of course of having your credit card details hijacked and your account wiped clean but that is, if you aren't careful and attentive enough to watch out for security holes when you visit merchant sites. It wouldn't happen though if you just make sure that the letter "s" appears as one more letter to the "http" of the url that you type on your browser's address bar. So instead of just "http://domain.com," it now becomes "https://domain.com." Also, look for the padlock icon on the lower right corner of your browser's window. So there folks, Internet is a good place to go shopping but make sure you check first your browser before you click the payment button. Thanks for your visit...

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