Young people are most afraid of having an old man who likes to shop at home, who keeps buying things at home, and what they buy back is some cheap, bad quality things.
Obviously, there is no shortage of anything in the family, but it cannot control the desire that is constantly possessed.
Oh, yes!
The Chinese people have now gone through the era of starvation, but they are often lost in the search for happiness.
Why is it so difficult to stop the desire to buy?
Unstoppable desire to buy
The ivory chopsticks of the King of The Dragon
Let's start with a story from an elementary school:
The king ordered someone to make a pair of chopsticks out of ivory, and his uncle Miko saw it and advised him not to use it when he collected it.
The king didn't care, and the courtiers didn't think so.
Miko said:
With ivory chopsticks, you must not use clay pots and clay bowls, but use rhino horn cups and jade bowls; with ivory chopsticks, rhino horn cups and jade bowls, will you still eat coarse tea rice and soup cooked with beans? Eat the taste of the mountains and the sea, wear the nature of Aya silk, live in the requirements of grandeur, and build a pavilion of buildings and pavilions. If it continues to develop, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Sure enough, it only took five years for the King of Shangtang to destroy the 500-year-old Jiangshan.
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The "ratchet effect" that shopaholics must know
The example of ivory chopsticks is called the "ratchet effect" in economics.
The "ratchet effect" refers to the irreversibility of people's consumption habits once formed, that is, it is easy to adjust upwards and difficult to adjust downwards.
People are prone to increase consumption with the increase of income, but it is not easy to reduce consumption with the decrease of income, so that a consumption function with a positive intercept is produced, which is called the "ratchet effect".
The "ratchet effect" in life is simply from frugality to luxury, from luxury to frugality.
To change the "ratchet effect," you have to start by changing habits.
Controlling the money that can be spent can lead to the cessation of wasteful consumption step by step.
If you can recognize this aspect of the problem, it is easy to solve, as long as you try to avoid the environment where you can use money.
Shopaholics are better off not owning credit cards and not starting any instant loans, otherwise, life is like a flood of broken banks, immersed in debt, chaotic.
Hard to fill?
Why do people have a hard time filling? Materially rich but difficult to feel happiness?
Mikhari Chiksen Miharai, author of "Flow", said that everyone's happiness actually stems from the degree of order in their own hearts.
Simply put, shopaholics are people with empty hearts, their inner order, once chaotic because of something, they can not find a sense of happiness, can only turn their attention to the possession of objects, in order to temporarily forget the inner feeling of emptiness and uneasiness.
Helping shopaholics to re-order their hearts can help them change their shopping habits.