Thursday, December 5, 2013

Holiday Shopping Tips

If you're heading out to do some Christmas shopping, you probably know it can be very easy to end up spending more than you intended. Martin Lindstrom, the author of a book called Brainwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy, offers up the following hints to stay within your budget:

  • Don't take your kids with you. Studies show that shoppers with children in tow end up spending 29 percent more than they had budgeted.
  • Don't take your spouse, either. They'll make you spend 19 percent more than you expected to.
  • Carry your purchases rather than loading them into a shopping cart. A shopping cart leads to an 8 percent increase in expenditures.
  • Pay with hundreds. The bigger the bills you have, the less willing you'll be to break them.

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