10 Things I No Longer Buy to Save Money|Hoarder's Minimalist Habit (MONEY SAVING IDEAS)

in today's video i'm going to share some of the things that i no longer buy as a hoarder [Music] i have a confession to make i'm the biggest hoarder that i know i love to hoard things it gives me this gratification i don't know why i just like to store things up hoard things i feel that i just feel more secure when i have enough stuff in the house but i also know that it's not healthy because it's hard to keep it organized and financially sometimes it's just not worth it to make that purchase in today's video i'm going to share some of the things that i no longer buy as a hoarder before we start i just want to do a disclaimer that just because i no longer buy them doesn't mean that let's say if i really really need one i don't buy them at all it's just say that i don't buy them regularly unless i really really need them another thing is that the purpose of this video is not to shame anyone who love to purchase them because i love to purchase a lot of things that a lot of people actually don't think it's worth it i just want to make this video to reflect on my own purchases and maybe inspire you to think and rethink about your purchases maybe sometimes it will save us a little bit of coins back to our wallet without further ado let's get into the video the first category of the things i no longer buy or no longer regularly buy is jewelry just to make this video i put on earrings if you go to my favorite videos you will see that i actually don't wear jewelries a lot okay so as a girl i also like fashion i like accessories i love things that make me look good but over the time i realized that a lot of the times when i purchase jewelries either i lose them or i forget about them or sometimes i go to the gym or yoga studio with my jewelries they're just so daggling that make me uncomfortable and sometimes when i'm typing rigorously and i realize my bracelet is always really clutching the desk so i stopped wearing jewelry in general from time to time if i'm going to an event or if i'm sitting down here to film a video i do take out my own jewelries and to put them on and these are like five dollars so overall i stopped purchasing jewelries for the past two years and i felt like i still have enough jewelries from the past so here's the deal if you really need a pair of something or a necklace for an event i do think it's okay to buy affordable jewelry just for the appearance of fashion but i just don't think it's that worth it to spend hundreds of dollars on a super sparkly ruby and no longer wear them you know i also don't like to wear my wedding ring an engagement ring because when i do yoga the rain just hurt me so overall i'm just not a jewelry flashy person so i also no longer purchase jewelry but if i do go to china some of those accessories are really cheap like one to five dollars i do stock things up a little overall i have a very low budget when it comes to accessories and jewelry because i feel like they don't have real use towards them and i lose them and i feel bad so i just no longer purchase them people have been gifting me presents that are like earrings or necklace so i do keep those presents and sometimes i wear the bracelet because my best friend has the exact same one it reminds me of her so i do accept those gifts when it's like something really really special but i just don't think that it's financially healthy for me to go out and buy so much of them if i don't really wear them on daily basis next item on the list is also an interesting category is that i no longer purchase wallets i feel like last time i bought a wallet it was like five years ago yeah five years ago i did buy a wallet but i haven't been using a wallet for so long so the reason why i no longer purchase wallets is because ta-da i have a phone case okay this is really good i have been purchasing and repurchasing different phone cases and a lower price between 10 to 20 dollars they're definitely way more affordable than wallets because if you want to buy a good enough wallet they're usually between 50 to 80 they're pretty expensive depending on the brand so i really like this one this is a phone case that i got from online not gonna show my id so it basically has this kind of like card where you can put your cards right here and it also has this so this one is basically like a clutch that you can put some other cards or other ids or other cash so basically i feel like wallets are too much to me if i have to leave the house if i have to bring my phone and my wallet it's just two items but in this case i have one item and then i put a strap there we go and then i can just have two hands at my dispense and this wallet slash phone case will just dagger right here so i recommend you to get one of those phone cases and it's definitely very life changing um you can get it from amazon ebay alibaba and things like that and i think there are also more expensive ones but these are really cheap online and i really like the fact that i can put so many cars and things like that in so i just no longer purchase wallets in general and i feel like this is one for all um the third category is something that i learned during this pandemic quarantine when the quarantine first started i felt like i don't have i felt like i wanted to be safe so i try to i try not to go to grocery stores a lot as a result i purchased a lot of frozen meat i bought a lot of frozen steak uh ribs and everything but honestly i only cooked half of them i still have the other half of frozen meat in my freezer and honestly now that i'm back to the office to work i have to commute every day i don't have time to cook anymore so it's just take forever for you to defrost something and then cook them it's just not gonna worth it so i feel like in the future i'm not gonna store things stock up things just because you know i don't have time to go because i forget about the ribs that i bought and then i wanted to make them i've been wanting to make them for a long time but i just don't have time so overall i do think just purchase the things that i need for the whole week instead of like thinking oh i'm gonna buy meat and freeze them in the freezer for a month i just feel like it didn't work for me and i still need to find a way to cook all the things in the freezer so i definitely don't think it's a good idea to hoard them anymore lesson learned the next category is the designer backs for the look or fashion um i think when i first came to america i felt like wow there's so many designer bags that are cheaper because once they're imported to china they became more expensive so there were two years i was buying things that has a name and i felt like oh they're so pretty and it's trendy and this bag is so trendy because like this year it's just great and it goes with this type of clothing and it has this brand it's good quality yeah they are pretty good quality but at the end of the day are they worth the price no because you're buying for the design and you're buying for the brand you're not really buying for the actual purse or bag so eventually i'm so over it right now i know i learned a lesson i don't think it's worth it to buy them for the fashion i definitely think that certain brands have really good quality tote bags and purses and backpacks and i do buy them for the utility of those handbags i don't buy them for the fashion or for the brand anymore because i feel like it's just not worth an investment because after a couple of years there's going to be new things and the things you spend 200 on is no longer trendy and what you're gonna do if you don't feel like it's great for bringing them to work it's not great for holding the laptop i kind of feel like it's wasted so i still buy the tote bags for my favorite brands just because i like to use tote bags for carrying my laptop but i no longer buy designer bags just for the fashion just because they're trendy and honestly there are so many bags that are also very trendy they fit into the particular trend but they're not designer brands that makes them so much cheaper you can buy a bag for thirty dollars instead of three hundred dollars they look exactly the same except for that particular brand and i would just go for the thirty dollars and people actually are more interested in my bags that are non-branded they're like this is so unique i love this color i never saw it because you know it's just anonymous brand that i found somewhere online but they're actually really great so i no longer buy those things and my wallet and bank account definitely happy about it wait i don't even have a wallet my phone case and my bank account are definitely really happy about the next category is about watches i used to really look into the watches with like different colors different brands um different metal bands and everything and i used to love them because they're really great accessories to put into your fashion but now i feel like i am more into the actual function of the watches and there are definitely different watches that are really good looking that has really good function the functions that i look for in a watch is if they track the steps if i can read a message if i can actually like oh tell things easily if i can track my physical states and my lifestyle my sleep i do think they're really good lifestyle items so i really really really love my fitbit yeah but i do think if you kind of need watches for occasions just buy one really good watch that holds its value and then wear it for different occasions um but instead of buying different watches from different fashion trends from different brands that are like a hundred and two hundred dollars it's just not really worth it i just get one that's very functional or maybe one in the future if i want to wear it for like occasions but if you do want to buy a really good watch buy one that holds its value so we'll get into that later the next category in the list is actually something i'm super guilty for and this is to go coffee when not needed so i understand from that if we are if i'm going to an airport if i'm feeling really really sleepy and i'm actually out i do need to go to starbucks or at the coffee shop or sometimes i will go to a coffee shop to work so i would order a cup of coffee sometimes to go cup but overall i just don't think it's good to buy to go coffee just for the sake of to go coffee because i've seen people who drive to starbucks buy a coffee and drive back home i'm like why don't you just make coffee at home so i do have an espresso machine which makes my life easier but before i would just use k-cup or regular coffee maker so my coffee ranges from 20 cents to 75 cents but that's way cheaper than the choco coffee and if you really like the starbucks ones you you can actually get the syrup or get the cream especially the pumpkin spice ones sometimes i will buy the cream or half and half with different flavors at home so you can definitely make them at home again this is not saying to go coffee is no no no but ever since i reduced my consumption of to go coffee and try to make them at home or make them at home and bring them to work and things like that i do feel like my credit card my bank account is happier i do feel like i saved at least 30 dollars per month and actually yearly that's like three hundred dollars and that's actually a lot of money if you want to buy something that actually has great use and lasts for a long this category is about clothing so i stopped buying jeans um i stopped buying jeans for one we're not allowed to wear jeans at work so to me i will only be able to wear jeans on the weekend and on a weekend i wear leggings or dress or a skirt so definitely between leggings and jeans i would prefer leggings and then jeans are i used to be able to wear jeans to work but now i'm no longer allowed to so i feel like yes denim items are definitely really trendy they never go out of trend they're really great if you want to mix and match different shirts and blouses and things like that but eventually i feel like although they look good i don't have an opportunity to wear them so again i see a lot of times i got influenced by a lot of vlogs and online youtube videos about how to match denim with different items so i buy the denims they do look good but then i wear them like five times a year and it's just not a purchase that i should allow myself to make so in the future if i'm allowed to wear jeans at work maybe i will buy jeans again but overall i just don't think it's a great purchase anymore and i still have the jeans that i purchased from before so in the future if i ran into a really really comfortable jeans that are really really good looking that's on sale maybe i'll buy them just for the holidays the vacation times and things like that but in general i will try to be more mindful every time i see a pair of jeans that i want rethink if i really need it can i really wear it how frequently am i going to wear it to really evaluate its value and that speaks to the next category the next category is actually um something that i tried i tried no longer buy like i still buy them from time to time but i try not to buy them as much as possible so this category is non-professional and non-sporty clothes like this well actually i can wear this to work i think because it's a long dress but currently we have a dress code at work so i have to dress certain way and then when i get home i just want to get really comfortable and i really want to put fitness clothes because every time you put sporty clothes i want to do sports right because you're ready so i no longer buy things that i cannot do sports in or where to work sometimes if some dress looks really nice um but they're a little bit too short to wear to work i would still buy it just because i want to wear it on the weekends but overall i try to reduce the purchase when it comes to non-professional non-sporty clothes because when am i gonna wear them so when you evaluate its value even if it's only ten dollars if you don't get to use them it's a lot of money if you spend 20 on something you wear every single day that's of great value because that just means that you no longer need to buy more clothes to wear on those days genius lodge the next category is makeup remover wipes ta-da okay so this is something i still buy from time to time if i actually have to travel i do think they're very handy but i used to use makeup remover wipes every single day and they're really really good but i just feel like it's a lot of waste and they're actually really pricey so later i started to buy those makeup remover cleansing bombs from sephora and those things are even more pricey but i realized that for thirty dollars i spend on a cleansing bomb i can use it for three to four months versus on a makeup remover wipe yes they're five dollars but i only use it for 10 days although they're cheaper five to ten dollars you actually rent out them really quickly sometimes you need more than one wipe if you put a lot of makeup so sometimes i ran them through really quickly and it actually gets more expensive than the actually luxurious makeup cleansing balm so i would just prefer the makeup cleansing balm because they work so nice not quickly compared to the makeup remover life so luxurious better value not so much luxurious and it's a lot of waste as well for the environment i would definitely go for the cleansing bomb so i only buy remover wipes when it comes to travel purposes if i am not allowed to bring any cleansing oils and bombs and things like that but for now i haven't been purchased them for the past nine months i'm still using the ones that i got for a long time ago and i feel like i feel so much happier because my trash can is no longer that full it has another benefit as well the last category is also with fashion so before i used to buy a lot of things from forever 21 h m and honestly i'm no longer forever 21. forever 21 is not real you're not gonna be forever 21. i'm 30 this year a lot of times you'll find things that are quick fashion from forever 21. they're really trendy this year in the same fashion follow the same fashion trend with a lower value so instead of purchasing a dress for 60 so you can spend 10 but honestly first of all it's quick fashion next year it will be different second of all there is a reason why that dress is sixty dollars because it's actually more comfortable they're definitely dresses that i wear for like over five years and i still feel so comfortable in them whereas there are also dresses that i wear them for seven days and i feel like um every time after i wash them they shrink those fuzzy balls or kind of the structure of the dress kind of shifted a little bit or the material just not that great after 10 years of being in the 20s i finally learned my lesson now i'm 30 and i'm gonna buy things that i found more comfortable and things that are more suitable for me instead of quick fashion trends and instead of those super cheap material type of fashion outfit clothing items instead of purchasing things for ten dollars wear it once i buy things that are thirty dollars but i wear it for three years so definitely the other one is better value so i learned this lesson the hard way i had to declutter so many of my clothes out and at the end i feel like things that i spend a little bit more money on and also things that i feel like more suitable for me not so much following a trend i actually wear them for a longer time because even though the trend is no longer there you'll enjoy it and you look great in them all right that's it for today i hope this video can be helpful to you i hope it inspire you to rethink about your purchases if you like it please give it a thumbs up subscribe to this channel and bring the notification bell and let me know in a comment what are the items that you no longer buy so maybe you can inspire me a little bit more so that's it for today thumbs up subscribe ring the bell and i will see you in my next video bye [Music] [Music] is

Channel: Ms. Ming lifestyle

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Keywords: things I no longer buy, minimalist habit, how to save money, money save money, money saving habits, 10 things i no longer buy, noney saving habits, anti haul, things I no longer buy in my 30s, spend less money, millennial money, millennienal money habits, saving money in 30s, save money in 20s

Id: unxviPomCmc

Length: 20min 16sec (1216 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 25 2020