I don't know if you have noticed the impact you have been affected since childhood: it has been hard for a year, how can you .....
So much so that every Spring Festival, I will find a reason: buy things that I am usually reluctant to buy, experience games that I have not usually played, and participate in a gathering of friends who have not been in touch throughout the year.
Then, use a sense of ritual to influence yourself, use "high consumption" to treat yourself, and in the end, more than half of the year-end bonus in your pocket is spent.
The point is that this kind of "reward" is cool for a while, and after the incident, there is a faint heartache, and the things in hand are not as warm as when you look forward to it.
Therefore, during the Spring Festival this year, I decided not to spend these 5 sums of money again.
1. New Year's dress up "three-piece suit"
Girls are familiar with the three-piece New Year's dress: perm, nail art, eyelashes.
I don't know when, almost all girls have fallen into this consumerist package, as if they lack one, they will mistake their faces, and the years are not complete.
In the past year, it was difficult to wait for a seat, and it was normal for the price to double, for example, the store I often went to sent a notice a month in advance that "the membership card cannot be used during the peak period of the previous year".
What's more, just wanted to cut his hair, but was politely rejected by Mr. Tony as "busy with perm and dyeing", but when it came to the idea of "big perm and dyeing project", there was time again.
Speaking of the results, the sentence on the Internet, "Sure enough, no one can walk out of the barbershop with a smile", is not "covered", it is "not hot and not dead, but hot and dead".
Therefore, keep your original hair, occasionally want to change the style, hair tools to assist, in fact, more in line with your own aesthetics.
In addition, as a girl, please listen to the advice:
Delicate nails are not as comfortable as white and soft hands;
The exaggerated eyelashes, which look really different from the wrinkled face;
Good hair quality and suitable hairstyle make a person more temperamental.
Therefore, instead of a "surprise attack" coming to the year, it is better to take good care of it in ordinary times, after all, "success lies in the accumulation of time, not overnight".
2. "Wear new clothes in the new year"
When I was a child, my family was poor, coupled with the lack of materials, and I didn't have a "consumption plan" a few times a year, so "buying new clothes for the New Year" became a "convention".
But now it's different, there is an abundance or even a surplus of materials, shopping is convenient, you need to buy at any time, and you wear new clothes every day, so there is no need to save all year round.
The so-called "New Year's Jersey", I think a post I saw before said it quite right, "After seeing the uniform, she feels that she is competing in females", and we, is it necessary?
In addition, the new clothes do not have such a strong aura, and the so-called aura is a convincing rhetoric for marketing.
In addition, good clothes can indeed make people feel that your life is better, but the good and bad of life are not shown by clothes, and expensive clothes cannot bring a sense of superiority.
To put it mildly, no one cares if you're doing well or not.
There are also logistics outages, etc., selling anxious marketing, to be honest, I was also very anxious in the past few years, and then I slowly found out that this is just an attempt to tear off the year-end bonus in your pocket, and I was unmoved.
Therefore, during the Spring Festival this year, I decided not to spend money for the sake of "conventions", and the same dress, with different bottoms, scarves, accessories, etc., can also present different styles.
In addition, winter clothes, the number of washes is less, and they are taken off when they enter the door, and it is good to wear them for a few years, no matter how much they are the burden of the wardrobe, and there are children, at the end of winter, the clothes that are suitable this year but have not been able to wear them a few more times will be small next year.
Instead of piling up a "sense of ritual of the year" with these items, it is better to talk about the Spring Festival culture with children, which is more profound and meaningful.
3. Prepare snacks in advance
"Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky, twenty-four, sweeping the house... Twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns, thirty nights to stay up for a night", as soon as the New Year passes, the New Year began to wander around in the brain.
Then, before and after, but that was before.
Now for the Chinese New Year, the supermarkets are open, the house is hot, although there is a refrigerator, but the space is so large, the fruits, meat, and New Year's goods bought in advance are easy to deteriorate, so that when they are about to be put on the table, they don't look good.
Also, more and more restaurants are open for the New Year, plus home treats, at most 1-2 days, too many snacks for the New Year, can not be consumed at all.
I remember last year, my dad prepared a lot of nuts, but most of the guests put down the ceremony and went through the motions, and finally a few stayed, and they were only limited to one or two hours of meal time, and many of the snacks prepared in advance were eaten in the middle of the year.
That's it, they still can't bite the old two, and every time they keep us home to eat, they finally feel like they have eaten a psychological shadow.
There is also candy, young people control sugar, and the elderly love to eat it, but the body does not support it.
Therefore, this year's snacks are here, I decided to buy them according to my preferences and consumption capacity, and prepare less and finely.
After all, most of them still eat by themselves, and they can also eat good quality, even if it is a little expensive, and not wasting it is another form of saving money.
4. Unnecessary dinners
At the end of the year, the group of classmates who had been silent for a year suddenly "escaped" out.
It's rude to say it's boring, but the fact is that @ you, you have to deal with it, don't @ anymore, at most you toss and turn twice, and you can't stir up a little wave in your heart.
Then to the class reunion, there was nothing to say, there was something to say, it was really embarrassing, and in the end, I didn't eat well, and my face was so tired that I cramped.
After the gathering, whether to contact or not to contact, and finally understand that the social interaction of adults is more based on value exchange.
Therefore, instead of spending money to attend a party with a loss of time and energy, it is better to leave this part of the money and time for your family and the people closest to you, and spend it in the most comfortable way for you to relax and be happy.
5. New Year's decoration
It has to be said that with the blessing of decoration, everywhere is full of New Year's flavor.
Maybe I'm not in a good way, or maybe I'm too sober, and I see that every year when I post the Spring Festival couplets, I have to tear up last year's ones first, and I suddenly feel that this matter doesn't make much sense.
In addition to the Spring Festival couplets, other New Year's jewelry, it is even more miserable, after fifteen, at most out of the first month, it is difficult to escape the "waste fate".
Therefore, starting this year, regarding New Year's decorations, I chose not to "follow the crowd".
For example, the traditional paper couplet has been replaced with a magnetic mini couplet, which can be used for practical purposes when it is sucked on the refrigerator after the Spring Festival;
The content of the long and in-depth couplet has been replaced with a simple "peace and smoothness", and the wish is simple, so it should be easier to realize, right?
The money saved for decoration is better to buy a bouquet of flowers, which are fresh and pleasant, or ask someone to do a thorough cleaning.