This is Steveer Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

I just love buying new things.

They say that if you buy enough new things, you win.

The lady who lived upstairs liked to buy new things.

She bought clothes and knick-knacks, computers, books, and linens.

She bought so much that eventually her rooms filled up.

The things made walls, like a maze inside her apartment.

She would go through the maze to her bed where there was just enough room for her to sleep for the night.

But she kept buying new things, and the walls of the maze got narrower and narrower.

One day, she walked into the apartment and disappeared. She was never

seen again. The moral of this story is clear. Always carry a ball of string so you can find

your way out of any maze you happen to wander into. That, and think three times before buying

stuff. We all buy stuff. We buy computers, beautiful Molescine notebooks,

expensive software air conditioners, and vacation time shares. The first step to a wise decision

is knowing what you hope the purchase will do for you. Check your motives. Other than the fun

of sheer consumerism, trading a potentially happy, joyful retirement for

something you'll play with for a few months and then discard, why do you want to buy this thing

now? Surely it can't just be that you're looking forward to a wretched old age of sickness and

squalor. There must be some other reason. My next big purchase isn't a computer or a car or

something work-related. It's a mattress. My current mattress was

born around the same time as Justin Bieber. One of those needs a replacement. And since the

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