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QOTW: When to slow down the buying?
Written on January 12, 2015 at 12:00 pm by MichelleFiled under: Question of the Week
Part of being a responsible Blythe enthusiast is knowing when to slow down with the purchasing. This is also probably why I tend to buy a lot in a short amount of time when I go on my binges. I buy a lot, realize how much I’ve spent on dolly things, and then go on a purchasing sabbatical for a few months before reading the process. My personal best month was receiving a dress in the mail and also purchasing two Kenners. Granted, they needed a lot of T.L.C., but I still purchased two Kenners that month (and what a month it was!).
Prim and Lily think there’s nothing wrong with buying two Kenners on the same day.
They are both wearing Plastic Fashion.
My personal rule of thumb is if it isn’t money that I already have and is not allocated to something else (hello, responsibilities), then I cannot spend it. This goes well with helping to keep credit card debt manageable (completely paid off every month), as well as keeping me in check. If I cannot afford to pay for it in cash, I can’t buy it at all. The use of the credit card is just because people don’t tend to ask for you to mail them crisp bank notes in the post, they’d rather have you pay via Paypal because it’s online and instantaneous.
When do I think it’s a good time for me to slow down on buying things?
- When there are other things that take precedent – e.g. presents for someone that isn’t me, regular bills that weren’t as self-inflicted.
- When I start being surprised at mail as it arrives: Oh, did I buy that?
- When I cannot keep track of what I bought and from whom.
- When I go shopping online and buy ALL THE THINGS and my bank account sighs heavily at the exertion.
- When I can no longer afford it unless I start selling something (thankfully I have never reached this stage!).
When do you think is a good time to slow down on buying things?
In general, all my doll-related purchases depend on 2 main aspects: that I have enough money to buy something from my wishlisht and that the opportunity arises to make said purchase. If I follow those 2 simple rules, I never have to slow down because I know there will be a long period of time between activities.
When your UPS guy suffers a hernia making deliveries to your home, then I would say that it is time to slow down.
Thankfully, I don’t have a credit card because I have been known to have impulse control issues.
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I am working on slowing down to just about a stop. My current focus is to get all of my bills under control and then transition to SAHM (within the next four months!!!) Once that happens, good-bye Blythe spending! Haha. I was not as well-behaved with credit cards as some of you and now I am paying for it in the form of a job I absolutely hate while my beautiful offspring attends a daycare/preschool that I don’t love. Be careful with your moola, kids!
Haha the second one… being surprised about mail as it arrives. Yeah, guilty as charged!
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