&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Savings on Hi from Dwipal</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/savings/</link><description>Recent content in Savings on Hi from Dwipal</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:54:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/savings/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>A way to prevent spending..</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-03-22-a-way-to-prevent-spending/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-03-22-a-way-to-prevent-spending/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Starting March 5th, I had decided to put a 1 month moratorium on all the spending except basic necesseties like food and drinks. There were multiple instances during these 10 days where the moratorium saved me from spending, which I would have done otherwise. This is specially to stop spending money on &amp;lsquo;impulsive purchases&amp;rsquo;, which are the things that you don&amp;rsquo;t need.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you feel strongly for buying something, make sure you don&amp;rsquo;t buy it for a few days. It will kill the desire of unwanted spending, and will actually make you happy that the money didn&amp;rsquo;t go wasted. Now, even after a few days, if you feel the need of that item, then you can go ahead and buy it. Most of the time, you won&amp;rsquo;t :).&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Starting March 5th, I had decided to put a 1 month moratorium on all the spending except basic necesseties like food and drinks. There were multiple instances during these 10 days where the moratorium saved me from spending, which I would have done otherwise. This is specially to stop spending money on &amp;lsquo;impulsive purchases&amp;rsquo;, which are the things that you don&amp;rsquo;t need.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you feel strongly for buying something, make sure you don&amp;rsquo;t buy it for a few days. It will kill the desire of unwanted spending, and will actually make you happy that the money didn&amp;rsquo;t go wasted. Now, even after a few days, if you feel the need of that item, then you can go ahead and buy it. Most of the time, you won&amp;rsquo;t :).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Following are the list of items I would have bought otherwise:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sony Erricson P910 PDA Phone&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Building a custom DVR (Tivo)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Playstation 2 with Katamari Damacy&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, during this time, I have learned to delay purchasing anything by atleast 10 days. If you can live without it for that time, you probably don&amp;rsquo;t need it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!
D.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;p.s. I am not sure how long this kind of control will last, and the bubble will burst&lt;/span&gt; ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded></item></channel></rss>