Gadzhetomaniya: how to live with it and whether to fight
Tips / / December 19, 2019
In one of the posts we have already considered the dependence on technology and the desire to be constantly connected. This time, we will analyze an overwhelming desire to have a novelty in his pocket and, preferably, one of the first. You see a new presentation of Steve Jobs and parallel feverishly typing in the search bar to "buy"? Then welcome to the club gadzhetomanov!
All advertising campaigns technical innovations sharpened by then, so that you have an overwhelming desire to not only buy this product, but also to be one of the first. While the best surround their products an aura of "want-buy-immediately" is obtained from the company Apple. Last stage - it's when you put no alarm for 5 am to 6 have to be at the store on the first day of sale, and a tent under this store.
There are some rules, tips to help you avoid buying a "want" and a smooth transition to the option "Do I really need it."
1. "Sleep on it" or Rule 100 dollars. Before you buy a new product, wait for so many days, how many hundreds of included in the price. That is, if the gadget is worth $ 600, then wait 6 days before buying. And these days you need to think about it, how you need it, this gadget.
2. Find videos and articles in which these gadgets carry out various crash test. Blend It very fit, but also look good article, in which a new product is broken down into components and subjected to merciless criticism. Even if you are an ardent fan of the favorite products of the company, it still will air your brains and to sow the seeds of common sense.
3. wait a few months before buying. Often new products comes with various bugs that were missed during the tests. Typically, after a few months out more updated gadgets already correcting deficiencies.
4. Make a list. Before buying a new gadget, make a list on paper of necessary functions, and you pick up the addition of the gadget that you want, and even cheaper from another manufacturer. In addition, if you have a previous version of the gadget, compare how new is better, faster and with more features. And do you really need these new features or you just want a new toy?
5. Fashion gadget or tool for the job? Admit at least imagine that you want it, not because very well help in the work, but because it has already gadzhdet at Sergei and Sasha. And you do no worse, and even ahead of the rest, because it is necessary for the status.
In any case, even if you put on the status and walking with long obsolete phone kamilfo not once, think before you buy. Assessment of the need to purchase will help you not only to take a sober look at the real value of things, but also save you plenty of round sums.
On own experience I can say that especially works normally $ 100. Sometimes it happens that after the lapse of time is not so much and I want to buy. If all else fails, hide your money and cards at the time of release of new products in a safe and the keys give reliable person.