| When a lot of people go shopping, they will have | | | | of buyers remorse from ever happening to you, |
| an A-HA moment. This means, in simple terms, | | | | but one tactic to make sure that you are not |
| that they will have a moment where are they | | | | filled with regret at the purchase you decided on |
| look at an object in the store and realize that this | | | | is to wait a day and then come back to the store |
| is the object that they have been looking for the | | | | the next day, and see how you feel about it then. |
| person that they've been shopping for a gift for. | | | | After all, your sense that it actually would make a |
| This is the gift. | | | | good gift could be colored by the fact that you've |
| However, what if this doesn't happen to you? | | | | been shopping all day and are now frustrated. You |
| What if you are the kind of person who will | | | | could come back the next day, look at the item, |
| wander around the mall all day long, looking in this | | | | and realize how foolish it would've been to |
| story that store, picking up item after item and | | | | purchase it in that impulsive state. |
| putting it down again, and then when you finally | | | | However, and this is a more common occurrence, |
| see something that you feel like could be | | | | you might come back the next day, look at the |
| workable, you only feel a halfhearted lukewarm | | | | item, and realize that if you had seen that item |
| enthusiasm about it? | | | | first day before you would have of course |
| If you jump the gun and buy that item | | | | immediately bought it. When you see it the next |
| immediately, thinking -- hey I need to get the | | | | day, you realize that the only thing that was |
| person something, and this does work if only | | | | causing your doubts about it was your fatigue and |
| barely -- then you always feel a sense of regret | | | | frustration level from having spent the entire |
| about what you bought. This is what's known as | | | | previous day shopping. |
| buyers remorse. It's that little niggling sense of | | | | Either way, sleeping on the decision and coming |
| doubt, this sense that there could have been | | | | back and reconsidering it the next day, in the cold |
| something better out there that you should have | | | | light of day light, and in a much more reasonable |
| bought instead of what you did buy. | | | | and logical state of mind, can only be a good thing |
| How can you avoid this? | | | | and will make it much less likely that you will |
| There is no way to entirely block the experience | | | | regret the decision in the long run. |