45 things you do not need
Purchases / / December 19, 2019
1. Gym
If 12 visits you mastered only three, and the subscription expiration date is nearing the end, the conclusion is obvious. It's not just your problem - many of those who buy tickets or membership cards, more in the gym do not appear. Do not waste your money for nothing, there variety of exercisesThat you can do at home. Totally free and at any time. Lonely.
2. Camera
Anyone who has a smart phone easy to do without a separate device for creating images. In the latest models of excellent cameras, plenty of space for storing files and a list of additional functions for shooting. With their help, you can do really cool pictures. So why do you need a separate camera?
3. multivitamins
Regular intake of vitamins - is the easiest way to feel like a man who cares about health. Alas, often this is just a waste of money. Before you buy a pack of these drugs, see your doctor and make sure that it is not enough for your body.
4. Elegant wedding dress
How is it that after the wedding should ideally happen only once? That's it, so spend crazy money on a dress you will never wear - not very practical. If you get married again, it is unlikely you will come in handy old dress. Add to it the cost of the cost of the garter, veil and other tinsel - here every budget crackling at the seams. To avoid excessive spending, hire a dress or choose a universal model that can be further used as festive attire.
5. bottled water
Pour the water from the tap in a bottle and sell - great idea. Producers earn this fortune. You can continue to support their well-being or just buy a special bottle and pour back the filtered water before you leave home.
6. Landline phone
Not everyone will agree with this, but in order to keep within the budget, it is necessary to give up all the excess - including those from a landline. If each member of your family has a mobile, landline phones simply do not need. It is useful only to people living in areas with mobile phones there are faults.
7. Clothing for training
Special suits for yoga classes at CrossFit and trenazhorke very useful if there is nothing to fill the space on the top shelf in the closet. For the most part it's just a divorce for money pomodnichat lovers. Engage in regular T-shirts and shorts, you're not on the podium in them go.
8. semi-finished goods
Nutritional value and shelf life they are often lower, and the cost and the amount of unnecessary packaging above. Semi-finished and ready-to-eat foods you should be excluded from shopping list first. Get the vegetables, fruits and other foods with minimal pretreatment.
9. toys
Children are accustomed to getting toys as a gift for birthdays and generally any holidays, but do not buy them at once in large quantities. Very soon (the account goes for weeks, if not days), the child is bored, and he wants something new. Try to take the toys to hire the specialized services or time to share with other families.
10. USB-flash drive
What is the USB flash drive? To store or transfer data. Can I do it a different way and do not spend money for nothing? Of course. Send files by e-mail, store them in the cloud - is full of options, and use the stick today even somehow ashamed.
11. All for detox
I will tell you a secret: the body does not need help in getting rid of the excess. He himself perfectly to deal with it, because the liver and kidneys are given to us for a reason. Advertising juices and herbal blends to detox facilities for bowel cleansing and other such things - it is an attempt in the most impudent way to sell to people that what they do not need. The very idea of detox - only marketing fictionHaving no or less clear explanation from the medical point of view.
12. Bread
Everyone loves fresh bread, especially the home, so that the acquisition of the bread machine seems very worthy idea. But do not let yourself be diluted - excellent bread can be baked in a conventional oven. Moreover, many prefer the bread out of the oven - they say it softer and softer.
13. Fabric softener
Another thing, without which it is possible to do. Air conditioning will replace the usual baking soda. It is much cheaper and linen softens worse.
14. GPS-navigator
If you do not wander the wastelands outside of cellular coverage area, a separate navigation device is clearly not related to the bare essentials. Any smartphone with a GPS-module to cope with the locating is not worse.
15. books
We buy an interesting book, read it once - and everything. Then it gathering dust in a closet, on a shelf sent to Bukkrossing or even end their lives in the garbage. It makes more sense to use library services or buy books in electronic format.
16. smart clothes
It is unlikely that you need every day a tuxedo or evening dress. Virtually the entire year, these things will be hanging in the closet, recalling the amount that had to pay for them. If you can take a richly-output clothing rental - take.
17. journals
Racks with them not just located right next to the cash registers - impulse purchases do their work. Just imagine how much money you spend on that look, at best, a couple of times. If you really get a magazine on a regular basis, it is better to issue on an annual subscription. Calculated in number one cost will be less.
18. lottery tickets
Everyone understands that the lottery - it is often a waste of money, but the thought "What if!" Does not rest. The truth is that there is no "suddenly" does not exist. According to statistics, you have much greater chance of face-to-face with an angry shark, to die on the machine for the sale of chocolate bars or become president than to hit the jackpot. Second name lotteries - "tax on stupidity", and this is clearly an ulterior motive.
19. CD and DVD
Yes, they still buy. Why - it is not clear. In the web a lot of places where you can find movies and music in high quality. Subscribe to the appropriate service and save a good amount.
20. Children's shoes
Infants do not need shoes. In any case, until they began to walk. Earlier attempts to put on their end in tears in the truest sense of the word. All these tiny shoes and boots look very cute, but the sense from them a zero.
21. Sandwich
Let's call all their names: kitchen appliances, perform only one specific tasks - is useless garbage. Do not waste your money on unnecessary stuff that will be in vain to take the place in the kitchen.
22. Insurance of bank cards
The possibility of theft by hackers of money from your account looks pretty intimidating, so the desire to further protect themselves is understandable. Still, think before you give a decent amount for insurance. Banks already keep an eye out for safety. At any time you can get all the information about the flow of funds, and quickly block the card to the fraudsters, if necessary, are left with nothing.
23. Pizza Accessories
Pizza needed ingredients, oven, baking tray and knife. Everything. Instead of the usual knife can buy a roller, but do not spend money on the baking dish, with a special spatula scissors, pizza oven and other items of questionable necessity.
24. Cute things for the bath
When we want to cheer yourself up or make a gift that will definitely come in handy destination, she reaches for the hand shower gel, cream or body spray. So imagine the idea because these things tend to accumulate frantic pace and clutter up all the free space in the bathroom. As a result, the shelf life of such tools often ends before we have time to use them.
25. Specialized kitchen tools
They can cause a variety of reactions, from "Wow, what a useful thing" to "Um, seriously?". In general, you do not really need all of these devices for chopping onions and garlic cleaning, as well as devices for cutting slices of bananas, peaches and avocados. With vegetables and fruits quite cope good old knife and fork.
26. In-app purchases
When downloads, like the free app, but then it turns out that in order to access some features still have to pay, it infuriates. In the case of games more annoying and obvious futility of such purchases - when the game tired, what do you do with the purchased weapons and clothes for your character? Do not get fooled by the lure of developers - in the majority of paid apps and games have a free analogues.
27. Disposable drinking straws
It would seem that cheap thing, but if the use of such plastic tubes regularly, it can fly a lot of money. In addition, it is necessary to be more humane to the environment and without the need to multiply the amount of garbage. It is better to buy each family member a reusable stainless steel straws, eventually it will be much more profitable.
28. The heater for wet wipes
Manufacturers just love preying on young parents, palming them like necessities, without which, in practice, you can easily do. Heater napkins - a striking example of this junk. Napkins can be warm in your hands, it does not need to spend a penny.
29. extended warranty
In most cases this service and so it remains unclaimed. Warranties imply a free repair or replacement of the product if it breaks down, but things break and after the period of extended warranty expires. In addition, the repair often is cheaper than buying a similar service.
30. Toasters with supernormal
Today toasters able fry bread, do scrambled eggs, hot dogs or even a piece of bread left on the prints in the form of small animals, soccer balls, butterflies, and the helmet of Darth Vader. Joke, as we know, it seems funny only the first time. That's such a toaster is unlikely to be long to please you.
31. Cable TV
It's time to cut the wires. If you have internet access, television - clearly not a necessity. In order not to miss your favorite TV shows, subscribe to some of the many video sharing services.
32. Designer breeds of cats and dogs
You want to have a pet unusual breed - Labradoodle or a Toyger? Prepare to throw money down the drain. Irresponsible approach to breeding animals, which sin many breeders, causes that are born dogs and cats with serious health problems. Some breeds are claimed to be safe for people with allergies, but no absolute guarantee can not give, why pay for it does not make sense. The shelters are waiting for millions of owners of animals. Perhaps it is necessary to shelter any of them, not unfasten a round sum for the pedigree?
33. Musical instruments
Children and some adults quickly light up the idea of learning how to play a musical instrument, but then quickly forget about this venture. The desire to learn guitar, violin or other instrument other expensive melts as awareness of the need for regular exercise and boring practice. Take the tool hire and spare your wallet from unnecessary spending.
34. vitamin drinks
Water enriched with vitamins, minerals, flavors and sweeteners - not the best choice, if you really care about your health. The benefits of these drinks is questionable, because synthetic vitamins are not always able to replace the ones that we get from food. Plus, these fluids contain large amounts of sugar. Make better tasty water themselves, will not worse.
35. Invitation cards
When it comes to large-scale event (eg wedding), sending invitations to guests is an expensive undertaking. Though the guardians of etiquette, and insist on the need to comply with this formality, many will not agree with them. Send an e-mail invitation, or create a social network, which is used by your guests, a group dedicated to future events. That all could adjust its plans, it should be made in advance - about 6-8 weeks before the celebration.
36. High-octane gasoline
If your car's engine is not designed for such fuel, why pay more? Use the gasoline recommended by the manufacturer, so the car will definitely be all right.
37. Home Apparatus for popcorn cooking
If you do not make popcorn on a commercial scale, then a special device you unnecessarily. Heated in a skillet a couple tablespoons of vegetable oil, pour back the seeds, cover with a lid and wait. It will be noisy, but tasty. SIFCO below demonstrates another interesting way of cooking popcorn.
38. trinkets
Various souvenirs, memorable things - it's all useless dust collectors. Supporters minimalism They believe that in the process of getting rid of extra interior parts such things - the first candidates for the flight. So do not buy them myself or as a gift.
39. Storage for diapers
It seems, he heads the list of unwanted children's clothes. Drive - a thing not very cheap, but the sense in buying it there. Put the used diaper in a bag and throw - a task that does not require special mental and physical effort.
40. Deep fryer
Fashionable device with which you are more namuchaetes. Fryer difficult to wash from it reeks of burnt oil - in short, this thing does not have to spend any money, no place in the kitchen. For frying and deep-fried quite enough iron pan and refined oil.
41. newspapers
Subscribe to them can cost quite expensive, but in the conditions of the digital age is at all a waste of money. To stay up to date with the news, you have the internet and television. In an extreme case, you can subscribe to the electronic version, so for sure it will be cheaper.
42. The device for preparing baby food
You are sure to sterilize bottles and turning the fruit into a smoothie need a separate unit (by the way, is rather expensive)? Our parents somehow managed without such technology, we can and we will. If you have a blender, tolkushkoy for potatoes or even a fork, the process of transformation of fruit and vegetables in the sauce does not require any other special equipment. Bottles can be sterilized with steam.
43. cookbooks
Collections of recipes - is the last century. The web is full of resources devoted to cooking. Here and recipes with step by step photos and practical advice and testimonials from those who have already tried to cook it. YouTube has many culinary channels through which you can learn how to cook from scratch.
44. heaped tools
Set DIY - a necessary thing, it can not be doubted. But do not go to extremes to get too steep and tools that will lie idle. When they are needed, take them out - probably in your town there is a company that provides rental power tools.
45. Goods for pets
Here we are talking about excesses - toys, funny dog clothes, houses for cats and other things that are pleasing not only pets as their owners. The animals are usually all the same, what a good time, so that they are quite satisfied with homemade toys.
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