5 Shopping Habits to Kick In 2021

you okay is that where you feel happy yeah do you feel happy there okay you can stick with mommy then that's fine hello everyone welcome back to my channel and to today's video which we may well have bumble for the duration of because simon's got smoothie maker out and bumble hates the sound the smoothie maker makes so he wants to come and sit with his mummy which is fine with me b you can sit with me my sweet angel right today's video is it's a light-hearted video i am by no means the person to tell you guys how to spend your money but i'm basically gonna run through five habits which would be pretty good to kick for 2021. right so shopping habit number one to break in 2021 is one season wonders now i know there will be lots of you who have bought plenty of one season wonders and what i mean by one season wonders is something that you purchase and this just from my own personal point of view my personal experience has always tended to be trend lead items i used to buy as i've spoken about before every trend possible there would have been trends that were seen on the runway which zara kind of did a version of and i would have lapped them all up and these were things they weren't trends that had any longevity because there's nothing wrong with buying into trends nothing at all i have the chanel dad sandals they are a trend they're obviously the ugly shoe trend but for me those sandals are something which i will wear when they are no longer a trend because i love comfort and i just think that when it comes to trends there are things that you can buy into which just suit you as a person but there were many many many things which i bought throughout my 20s which were wrong on so many levels i remember one thing in particular i think it was a skirt or it could have even been a skirt and a top set it was from zara which zara textbook they are the leaders on the high street for being able to replicate and create their own affordable alternatives to designer and catwalk looks if you like and i remember i bought a celine inspired and i can't remember what year it was from but it was the year where phoebe did all of the like art like prints so there was like paint splatters and smudges and all that kind of thing and i bought again i can't remember so you're gonna see on the photo that's gonna pop up on screen but i think it was a skirt and a top and it had this print that was very limited to one season in fact i think i wore that once which is something i would never do now and it's shocking but one season wonders are definitely a habit to break in 2021. shopping habit number two to break in 2021 is the oh but it was on sale purchases right so my rule of thumb when it comes to shopping in the sales is if i didn't want to buy it at full price don't buy it now just because it's in the sale and i know i've heard this from so many women i used to say it myself but you'll say things like oh it's such a bargain oh my god i picked this up for x amount it's so cheap such a bargain it's not a bargain if you never wanted it in the first place that's actually the reverse of a bargain that is wasted money because if you if it's something that you just never wanted it's something you don't need it's something you bought just for the fact that it's got discount and i've been there i have been fully immersed in that temptation i'd be lying if i said every time black friday rolls around i didn't go online and scroll certain online retailers just to see if there is any bargains i did it the black friday just gone i went on to it was louisa via roma and i went on that website because there was a flash 40 off and i think i've actually told this story before so i'm sorry if you've already heard it but i just found myself scrolling for no reason at all there was nothing that i actually wanted because it was in a weird sort of time of the year where i hadn't started planning spring summer and there was nothing i needed for autumn and winter there was nothing i actually needed but i was on there because i was like these are luxury goods at 40 off that's too good to turn down and i just found myself scrolling and in the end i sort of came to my senses and thought you need to just leave and just go and watch some telly so when it comes to sale shopping my word of advice is to make yourself a list especially when it comes to black friday because as i've just said those sales are in your face in a massive way make yourself a list consult your wish list if your wish listing along with me as you might have seen in some of my other videos that's how i compile what i need or what i want within my wardrobe consult your wish list and see if there's anything that you can pick up in the sales because i'm not saying sale shopping is bad sell shopping is great i have had some amazing bargains which i wear loads from in sales but it's just trying to get that fine line between wasting money and actually investing it wisely into your wardrobe right my third shopping habit to break in 2021 is buying on credit or buying with credit with credit on credit whichever and what i mean by this because i feel like i need to clarify this slightly is buying with money that you don't have because i know there's a lot of people out there who are really savvy with money and really good and you're excellent at and i say you're because i'm not within this category of people simon is my good money person i am the polar opposite i am like yeah that's not what i'm talking about i'm talking about buying things on credit because it's a temptation and it's money that you don't have and the reason i say this is because i am from what was called the store card generation this was a period of time and i think the laws have actually got a lot more strict on this now because you don't see this happening as much but this was a period of time where when i was going to say young people like myself i'm not a young person anymore but back in the day when i was a young person as soon as you turned 18 you could be out shopping i remember being in topshop and the first thing the person said to me was do you have a store card you can get 20 off this today and there we go it's that little discount thing coming back in as well into their sales pitch and i was signed up to every store card under the sun i had three credit cards i think but for me i fortunately i got into some debt but not massive debt like i was quite i don't want to use the word lucky but it's the only word i can think of i was quite lucky that they actually didn't give me loads of credit and i didn't manage to accrue as much debt as what i used to read in the papers or see on the news of some people had accrued tens of thousands so my tip for anyone that's kind of succumbing to that temptation of a credit card or a store card i don't actually do store cards even exist anymore i don't know if they do um but my tip would be and this is still something that i do is sell to buy and i've spoken about this in lots of my other videos i'll leave some links down in the description box below to some helpful videos to show you guys how to make the most of sell to buy let's have a look in your in your wardrobe your existing wardrobe or even around your home and just see if there's anything that you have there of any value that you don't want you don't use don't just go selling your entire home to fund you know a chanel handbag but see if there's stuff in there that you don't use and that you can sell because this is it's value that you've got sitting there which you could put towards something which you're obviously craving and speaking from experience again there's honestly nothing more satisfying way more satisfying than that dread of having your credit card bill come there's nothing more satisfying than saving up for whatever it may be weeks months years and then buying that dream item that is a good feeling and i also think that you appreciate that more as well right moving on to my fourth shopping habit to break in 2021 and that is just in case purchases now i know there's going to be lots of you who are guilty of the just in case purchases i have definitely been guilty of just in case purchases even as far back or as far back as as not so far back as last year i bought something which was a just in case purchase and now i've still got it it's still got the tags on in all fairness i did not see the pandemic lasting this long so i'm gonna let myself off for that just in case purchase but what i mean by just in case purchases you're out shopping and i feel like point number four kind of comes hand in hand with the sale point buying things just because they're on sale i feel like these two very much go hand in hand you're out shopping you see let's use a dress for example an occasion dress something that you might wear to a wedding but you don't have any weddings but you might have a wedding so you should buy it just in case those are the just in case purchases and i think definitely if the last year has taught us anything it's that we can't guarantee what's going to happen in the future if you have a wedding and you feel like you want a new outfit go for it go shopping second hand vintage or if you want to buy new whatever floats your boat treat yourself to a new dress or suit or whatever it may be but if you don't have a wedding to go to don't buy something for an imaginary wedding just in case right my fifth and final shopping habit to kick in 2021 is impulse purchases and again i feel like this one kind of also slots into some of the other habits that i've already mentioned but impulse purchases once again are something i have definitely made over the years and these can come from lots of different places but these are purchases which you do not think about at all you're literally just almost blindsided by what i call shopping lust it's like the just the want i want it i want it now and i used to do this all the time with it handbags i used to see them on instagram or pinterest or wherever even going back as far as like when i was in my late teens i used to see things on celebrities like before we had instagram i would see them in magazines and on reality shows and i'd be like right that's it i want that fortunately back then i didn't have the money to buy those but obviously as i've got older and my income has increased i've fallen into the trap and it can be for any any literally anything you could watch an ace hustle and want to buy five items from the 12 that you've been seeing but just because you've seen them on i don't know your favorite influencer whatever it may be it's impulse purchases that you've literally just seen not thought about at all and just gone and essentially blindly bought them right so my tip for avoiding impulse purchases um aside from me just saying just think about it is which is very easy for me to say is to go back to that wish list process so that making a wish list and having things on the wish list and thinking about them going back to it as you all know i make my wish list on pinterest because it's very visual so i can see that item every time i go on that wish list do i still have that shopping lust for it do i still have that real want to need for it and every time i look at that wishlist i'm thinking about how i would style it i'm also doing other research outside of the wish list with outfits like oh this blue shirt how could i style this in lots of different ways so that i make sure that if i do buy this that i will wear it a lot so that would be my tip to avoid making any impulse purchases right there we have it those were five shopping habits to kick in 2021 i could have literally made a massive list on so many other shopping habits and as a lot of you guys will know and i am a big ambassador for shopping second hand and i know that there might be some of you that are wondering why i didn't mention shopping second hand in this video as like a habit to favor but actually i feel like a lot of those points that i've just mentioned a lot of those habits within this video also apply to secondhand just because something is second-hand doesn't mean that it's a useful purchase if you've bought it just in case or as an impulse it's still technically wasted money for you if it's not going to be something that you get aware out of right so that's me and little bumblebee done for today thank you as always for watching we're gonna go and check and see if the smoothie maker has gone and i will see you next time bye you're gonna say baby for anyone that doesn't speak dog he just said bye he said yeah he said i was on this video mum and he said i was amazing he said i'm gonna be the star stars

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Published: Sat Apr 10 2021