7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Every Purchase

Trying to frugally navigate our lives through a consumer-driven culture is not easy. We are presented with choices about if and what we should purchase multiple times per day. And we are so bad at saying “no” that the average U.S. household now has over 300,000 items. How do we even begin to deal with this? The first thing we should do is question every purchase. Aside from basic essentials, no purchase in our lives should be considered a given. And no purchase should be assumed to be beneficial just because other people buy it. In this country, status quo The post 7 Questions...

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