Hello, Winevers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 273 for why now where we teach you four rules

to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck get out of debt and save more money

something crazy went down in the mecam household at the beginning of this year.

I don't believe I've talked about it yet, but not spurred from me at all, except that I would

complain about having to do returns and ship things

back so beyond my compliance about having to do the returns Julie came to me at

the beginning of the year and said one of her New Year's resolutions is to not

purchase anything online. And as I record this, she has not

purchased a single item online in 2017. And I am also not her surrogate purchaser. I told her that would be

defeating the purpose. So she will browse still she loves looking at all of the things that you would expect. She

likes to see the new styles. She has her favorite websites. She doesn't purchase

anything. She just looks and frankly she's looked

less often, she was reporting to me last, because it's kind of like, well if you're not going to

buy it, why are you looking?

So it's been interesting and pretty awesome.

Just kind of let that roll around in your mind a little bit.

I'm allowed to purchase stuff online still.

But it's been interesting because I've actually done it less because she's done it less. And the impulse that we all know like Amazon Prime and that whole monstrosity that we all use for that fast shipping and

Baysos is a brilliant genius, right?

So we all are pretty used to just kind of I want it I'll get it I want it I'll get it and when you're doing the online purchasing it's super easy they make it super easy. Brilliant. When you have to drive to a store, you suddenly don't want it as much.

And your threshold for should I purchase this just goes way up and you have to ask

yourself well gosh did you ever need those things before I don't know but I'm just

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