Shopping is a passion for some, a necessity for others. Anyway, do you ever find yourself leaving more crowns in the store than you expected? How to avoid this risk?
The average Czech family spends roughly 17 to 20,000 CZK per month on food and drugstores. And that’s not enough. But the truth is that the prices are inflated and a person will shell out almost a hundred for an ordinary thing that once cost “a few crowns”.
“That’s the case with ketchup, for example. I go to the store and see that the average price is around sixty to one hundred crowns. If I add sausages, bread, milk, butter, eggs and toilet paper to that, I’m almost at five hundred,” despairs Mrs. Dana, who until recently had a tendency to buy things to stock up on.
The authors of the video, The Minimalists, will teach you how not to spend money unnecessarily. More on the channel YouTube.com.
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Wind in the wallet
“Today I’m really looking for flyers and discounts. It’s desperate, but there’s no other way,” admits the likeable brunette, who turns over every crown. “When I want to buy something for myself, I almost have a guilty conscience, because then I can run out of money,” says the mother of her six-year-old daughter Leonka, who as a first-grader needed a lot of things for the beginning of the school year, which also affected the family’s overall budget. Therefore, Ms. Dana decided to change her approach to things and try the proven 30/30 rule of minimalists. What is it about?
Time to think
“I use this rule especially for more expensive things that exceed seven hundred crowns (which is just an imaginary thirty dollars),” says Mrs. Dana, explaining the principle of the rule of American minimalists: “When I see something for that much money, I try to give myself 30 hours to think and I find out if I really need the given item, or if it was just an impulsive desire that wouldn’t bring me anything special anyway… This is how I used to buy a bread box. Thanks to the time break, I perfectly planned the dimensions, but also the place where I would put it. In the end, I drove to get it and was happy to pay for it. It was not a “hurray event”, but a thoughtful purchase. And that pleased me.”
Stopwatch for a week or a month?
Mrs. Dana admits that another rule of the minimalists, that for more expensive things worth more than 2,400 crowns (that is, in the amount of 100 dollars), the time to think about it is set to a full 30 days.
“Of course, these are more expensive items that will be reflected in the budget. However, waiting a month to see if I need the item is sometimes risky. They might sell out of it or it won’t be in the collection anymore. Unfortunately, this happened to me with a cabinet that was in the outlet. I hesitated for so long that I passed. That’s why I personally give myself a week to reflect instead of thirty days. And that’s just right!’
Sources: www.apartmenttherapy.com, https://www.vogue.co.uk
