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Everyday Purchases People Regret Most
The biggest culprit behind many small spending regrets is the single-use item. What looks like a clever shortcut today often becomes tomorrow’s clutter. Jen and Jill point out that many of these products are marketed as life-changing solutions, but rarely live up to the hype. If a product relies on flashy packaging, bold claims, or promises to solve a problem you’ve lived with just fine, it may be worth skipping.
The Most Regretted Big Purchases
They then move on to bigger purchases that can quickly eat into years of savings. In one video, a mom shared her regret over buying a brand-new car that started having issues just two months later. Jen and Jill remind us that brand new doesn’t always mean more reliable, and suggest looking at models that have been around long enough for owners to share common problems online so you can make a more informed decision before buying.
Another person regretted buying an expensive bag that didn’t actually meet her needs, yet felt too costly to let go of. Jill says our spending regrets often come from the expectations we place on our purchases. But Jen reminds us that no purchase can substitute for the time, effort, and consistency it takes to become the person we want to be.
What’s the most recent thing you regret buying?
Soda and cookies for a potluck with 15 kids for Jen when it could’ve been just fewer soda packs and beef tallow chips from Costco for Jill.
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Thanks so Much for Listening!
Thanks so much for listening. We love love love reading your kind reviews of our book Buy What You Love Without Going Broke and we especially loved this one from:
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This book definitely gets an A+ from me. I’m not normally the type of person to read personal finance books, but this is not a “you should you should you should” type book, and neither does it push you into panic because you didn’t start earlier and now you have to catch up. The approach is much more gentle, more of a, “you can do this, and this is why you are capable of it, and here’s how to do it.” Which is another point: there are real action steps, along with a resources website page (you can get “handouts” for putting the action steps into practice). But honestly, one of my favorite things in this book is from the first section, and it’s about looking at yourself not with judgement, but with curiosity. Not “why can’t I just do this RIGHT??” but rather, “what is preventing me from singing what I want to do? Is there a way I can work around the problem?” Like dang, my therapist is LOVING the content I’m getting out of this book. The concepts are important for finances, yet, but it’s actually so helpful with creating big, positive life change while not necessarily feeling like it has to come from some Herculean effort. Anyway, just buy the book.
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