Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Greeted with a deluge of emails promising the best deals on massages, pole-dancing classes, party trays, and trips to exotic locales, I was all to anxious to see what each deal held as I opened emails from Groupon, livingsocial, ideeli, and my most recent lure, Myhabit (compliments of Amazon).  I gave into some of those deals which enabled me to check out services at cut-rate prices and even lost out on some of those previously-purchased deals since the coupons expired before I could use them.  That didn’t happen too much but it did make me think twice before clicking on the “buy” button as I didn’t want to waste money.  I get a ton of emails on a daily basis including ones from retail stores that I frequent on a regular basis, 15 percent off here, 30 percent off there, hurry 40 percent – last day to do so.  Lately, I’ve just become overwhelmed and while I was considering “unsubscribing” to a lot of these email deals, I was also admittedly leery of doing so.  I was thinking, “what if I miss that great deal to Paris for 5 nights or that new hot beauty service that’s all the rage?,” “What if I miss a great deal on a pair of shoes that I saw in the mall or that hot dress that’s 50 percent less than it is in the store?”  Well, I thought what if I do, will the world come to an end?  So, slowly but surely as I continue to ease into a “soft” shopping strike, I’ve “unsubscribed” from these daily lures.  Is it permanent? Maybe, maybe not.  Only time will tell but I presently have the peace of knowing that 1) my inbox will be less clogged thus, I’m less overwhelmed about the choice to purchase a pack of this or 2-night that and 2) I will be tempted into spending less money.   We may reunite but for now I’ll pass on that daily deal and opt for a daily dollar saved. In the meantime, I’ll redeem those services/items I’ve already purchased because I really could use a massage. According to Benjamin Franklin, a penny saved is a penny earned.  Indeed it is!

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