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Before Breakfast

Would you pay full price?

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Buying things just because they're on sale doesn't save money

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0:00.0

You don't put those inside of you, do you? This is a show about women. I mean, you do?

0:08.0

Finally, a show about women that isn't just a thinly veiled aspirational nightmare. It's not

0:14.3

hosted, not narrated, we're just dropping into a woman's world. I found out when my

0:19.0

dad was gay when I was 10, we were in a convertible on the 405 freeway, listening to the B-52s.

0:26.0

Looking back, I should have said, this is gay. This is already all gay.

0:30.0

Listen to finally a show on the I- Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or production of I Heart Radio.

0:47.0

Good morning.

0:52.3

This is Laura.

0:54.3

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:57.6

Today's tip is that you can save money and avoid clutter

1:06.9

by trying not to pay attention to sales. When you are thinking about buying something, ask yourself if you would pay full price. If you would then a sale is saving you money. If you

1:17.9

wouldn't then it isn't really saving you much of anything. I am a frugal person so I am always

1:26.7

drawn to sales but like many frugal people I have had the experience of buying something I didn't truly want because it was on sale.

1:37.0

Think a sweater and a color that I didn't really like.

1:41.0

Then I didn't really like. Then I didn't wear it. So rather than spending, let's say, $60 on something

1:49.0

I would have worn, I spent $30 on something, I didn't.

1:54.4

It's hard to see how that was better.

1:57.1

Avoid buying two of those $30 un-loved sweaters

2:01.1

and you could have fully funded the good one.

2:04.0

Anyway because of experiences like that I am trying to ask myself this question

2:09.2

would I pay full price?

2:13.0

If the major reason I am buying something is that it is on sale,

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