How To Avoid Buyer’s Remorse Ever Single Time You Shop- A Must Read For Everyone

The last time I felt buyers remorse was when I bought myself a new phone. CT had warned me about buying another phone since I already have two very functional ones but i remained adamant, my mind was made up, I was getting that new phone with or without his approval. So off I went to Slot Nigeria, purchased my new phone, got back home, opened a bottle of wine to celebrate, scanned through my new phone's exciting features all night, slept off, woke up in the morning and hated the phone. I kept asking myself if there was really any reason for purchasing another phone. Wish I have used the money for something else, wish I had bought a set of new shoes, in fact the money would have bought me a dozen shoes... and so my thoughts wandered and wandered and wandered on all the things iI would have bought with the money. When I finally summoned enough courage to tell CT how I felt bearing in mind that he has warned me against buying the phone, he just shook his head and  muttered "Buyer's Remorse"... Everyone can relate to this right?

Let’s get one thing straight, we love shopping, and the last thing we’re going to
tell you is to stop doing it if it makes you as happy as it does most fashion lovers.
However, we can offer up a few solutions to help you shop smarter and spend your hard-earned money—whether it’s #100 or #10,000— on things you really like and that you’ll use, as opposed to buying just for the sake of, well, buying. Read on for a complete guide to avoiding buyer’s remorse!

1. Take inventory.
Firstly, take a cold, hard look at your
closet . What’s hanging front and center?
These are probably the everyday things
you wear the most , which means one of
two things: You don’t need a new one, or
you do. (Translation: you don’t need
another one.)

Your plan of attack: Pull out the 10 things
you wear the most (shoes and bags, too!),
and examine them. Is your favorite staple
blouse getting yellowed in spots or has a
pesky collar stain that can’t be removed?
It’s time to replace it. Are your go-to black
skinny jeans finally broken in and looking
better than ever? You don’t need another
pair. Keep this going for all 10 items,
which will provide you with a basis from
which to deduce what you really need this
season. Take stock of what you have, right now.


2. Distance yourself from promotions.
Here’s a little secret: How information
is presented to you online and in stores is
a highly-strategized form of marketing,
and marketers want to do everything in
their power to make sure you don’t buy
something and return it. One way they do
this? Through coupons.
What’s that? You only shop at super-cool
or high-end places where coupons don’t
exist? Think again. Any call-to-action
retail information at all—sale emails from
Net-a-Porter or ASOS, free shipping codes,
or 25% off all designer shoes—can be
considered forms of coupons.
While deals can be amazing if you’re
legitimately in the market for something,
they can be pretty dangerous for the
casual shopper who—when she woke up
this morning—had no idea she needed or
wanted, say, a #3000 AX paris blouse from
Jumia until she got an email that it’s 20% off.

Your plan of attack: If you’re a sucker for
an impromptu promotion, try unsubscribing
from the five brand emails that lure you in the
 most. That’s not to say
you can’t go directly to the retailer’s sites
when you know you want things, but you’d
be surprised how little you impulse buy
without the pressure of tempting limited-
time emails being hand-delivered to your
inbox all day. Same goes for flash sale
sites, by the way!

3. Try the wait-a-day game.
This one might be the hardest, but it’s the
one that’ll be most effective to real-deal
shoppers who often find themselves in
stores after work, or frivolously shopping
online during the day. What does it
involve? Pretty much waiting a day before
you buy.
Your plan of attack: Every time you’re
shopping for something you love but don’t
really need, put it back on the rack (or
remove it from your online cart) and wait
a full 24 hours. If you can’t stop thinking
about it, it’s a sign that it might be worth
it. You’d be shocked how often we forget
about items that we almost buy when we
put a little time and distance between it
and us.
Obviously, if you’ve been looking high and
low for a certain pair of boots and they’re
sold out everywhere and you stumble
across them in your size and on sale, by all
means, buy away. This trick is best
reserved for items we know for a fact will
be there tomorrow. And it really, really
works.
4. Big purchases should be treated like
big purchases.
When someone buys a big new car or a big
new house, they don’t buy a bunch of
smaller, cheaper houses and cars a few
months later, right? So if you buy that
major investment bag, why buy five other,
cheaper bags soon after? This will kick in
buyer’s remorse both for the pricey bag
you’re not using as much, and the cheaper
bags, which you know you didn’t really
need.

Your plan of attack: You know how they say
to make a list of pros and cons before purchasing a house or a car?
Well, apply that to bags, shoes, and
clothes. Even if you don’t exactly buy into
“it bag” or “investment piece” ideologies,
odds are you’re still, in your lifetime,
going to want something expensive, so
writing a list can help suss out how worth
your money something is.
Write down why you think you need it,
whether you have the liquidity to really
afford it, and how often
you’ll realistically use it. Will you be able
to wear those 5-inch Charlotte Olympia or
Manolo Blahnik heels to work regularly, or
not really? Can you commit to carrying
that Channel bag every day for
years to come?
Another thing to figure out: Will this big
purchase cause real problems for you
down the line? Meaning, will that pair of
Isabel Marant boots set you back
far enough that your phone bill or student
loan payments won’t be met this month? If
so, it’s a good idea to let them be for now,
and start saving a little every month so
you can eventually buy them guilt-free (the
best way!)
A Chanel bag is a big purchase, so treat it
as such.

5. Don’t Keep Up With the Joneses (or
the Linda Ikejis or Rita Dominics, or the
Toke Makinwas)
Any street style addict knows that there
are certain personalities that simply kill it
every time they’re photographed.
However, just because you saw Genevieve Nnaji, Linda Ikeji, or Omotola Jalade draped in designer clothes and shoes isn’t a great
reason to go out and splurge on the same
stuff.
Don’t forget: Several big street-fashion
players, editors, and bloggers get sent
designer stuff for free to entice folks like
us to go out and buy it. Others are, well,
richer than us and it’s their day job to
flit around the world in the latest designer
clothes, which is fun to admire but
not necessarily healthy to emulate.
Your plan of attack: Seek out lesser-priced
pieces that that resemble things you admire
on street style stars. Plenty of sites and
stores offer items that feature similar
aspects to designer pieces, and put your
own stamp on it. -STYLECASTER

Hope this was helpful. Feel free to tell us about your last buyers remorse experience. Muah!