This document discusses ways to save money when shopping. It identifies different shopping sectors, needs, and goals. It emphasizes creating a shopping budget and plan to identify affordable items. It recommends shopping for sales items and durable goods that offer the most value and savings. The overall message is that planning purchases around one's budget, needs, and available discounts can help maximize savings.
4. Shopping Intro
Our shopping habits say a lot about how
we shop, what we shop for, and our
interest in the products that we purchase.
5. Shopping Sectors
Identifying our shopping sectors is a helpful
way to understand our goals or agenda,
when it's time to shop for our purchases.
And, include:
● Shopping for ourselves
● Shopping for family & friends
● Shopping for home
● Shopping for special occasions
7. Shopping Needs
Our decision to shop for needed items are
our reasons to buy the things we need or
want on a regular basis.
● Shopping for must-have items
Includes shopping for the products that we
like to keep a good supply of.
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8. Shopping Needs
● Shopping for what's new
Includes shopping for the products to update
our own stock of items that we often utilize.
11. Shopping Budget vs
Shopping Plan
In comprising our shopping budget, we
itemize our shopping needs before our
decision to make purchases. This may
include:
● Products that we need right away
● Products that can wait for a more
convenient time
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12. Shopping Budget vs
Shopping Plan
We enact a shopping plan when we
calculate the cost of each item. This is our
time of truism. We select the items that we
can or can not afford at the moment.
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13. Shopping Budget vs
Shopping Plan
When calculating the affordability of
each item, consider these tips to get the
most out of your purchases:
● Shopping for product worth
● Shopping for best prices
● Shopping splurges
16. Shopping Values
Being familiar with a brand or product gives
us an idea of what we want to buy.
However, the best purchases are of the
products that fit our needs and our lifestyle.
Brands or products add value to our
shopping budget, when we can measure
the personal and financial rewards with
every purchase.
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17. Shopping Values
Purchasing factors:
● Shopping for products that fulfill our
shopping budget or goals
● Shopping for products that offer the
most savings
20. Shopping Savings
Some of the things we don't think about
when comprising our shopping budget are;
how much we are going to save on our
products or which products last longer.
Often enough, a major concern when
saving on products is our tendency to
purchase more. This is a habit of
overspending, or not shopping within our
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21. Shopping Savings
budget. Why not develop your shopping
plan? Consider the cost of current sales
or discount priced items, when calculating
the price of products that you can afford.
It's a good idea to research coupons for
extra savings as well. If the savings are
significant, why not treat yourself with a
special purchase or long awaited item.
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22. Shopping Savings
This is a helpful way to offset the temptation
of overspending. To keep focused on
shopping the savings:
● Shop for items that are on sale
● Shop for items that are durable for the
money
25. Putting the Shopping into
'Let's See The Savings'
Shopping Sectors
● Are our purpose for shopping
Shopping Needs
● Are why we are shopping
Shopping Budget vs Shopping Plan
● Helps us to keep our shopping goals in
focus
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26. Putting the Shopping into
'Let's See The Savings'
Shopping Value
● Are the shopping rewards that we see with
our purchases
Shopping Savings
● Are shopping habits that save us money