Everyone has their moments where they have an impulse to buy something. That one little purchase itself wont hurt, but are you considering the effect your actions will have on your life?
Being impuslve and buying that certain product out of the blue isn’t that big of a deal. However if you are out going to buy food and you continue to grab food you don’t need, or you are going to buy a book and come back with tons more you might have a problem. Allowing yourself to continue to accept your impulse purchases may lead you to grabbing an impulse purchase very frequently. The more you are giving in to the impulses the more you will regret your purchases. This will lead you into buyer’s regret, spending your money and not even getting any benefit from it.
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes. – Vivienne Westwood
When we buy many items we focus on quantity over quality. If you want to buy that new jacket you should consider how long ago you bought your last jacket and if it had the same reason for purchase. If you buy one item that has great quality you wont have to buy another item for a long time. Knowing you have plenty of high quality products will help you not to impulse buy. From the moment you stop impulse buying you start to learn how delayed gratification works. Delayed gratification is that you resist the temptation of receiving immediate pleasure, instead you delay it so you can focus on what is important first.
Purchasing something itself will not necissarily be too bad for you. The bigger effect is that when you buy for example a new TV. You’ll be inclined to watch TV more often too explain to yourself, and maybe your famlily, why you actually needed that new TV. Because you feel forced to use the newly bought item more often you are using your time and you reduce the time you have remaining to obtain other goals that you could set for yourself. Why would you go play that piano that you had for years when you just bought a brand new TV for half a months salary?