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Confess Your Shopping Sins with Spendster Print
Wednesday, 29th October 2008 (by J.D.)This article is about Funny Money, Shopping, Tools
Spendster is a new site that allows users to share video stories about impulse buying, over-spending, and wasting money on Stuff they don’t need. These video confessionals are fun to watch (I would never buy that) until you realize just how much junk you probably have in your own life. This embedded widget should show you one such story:
According to the site, “a spendster is someone who in a moment of weakness buys something they think they really need and realize later they made a bad choice.” In other words, a person like me. I haven’t uploaded a video of my own, but that’s only because Kris and I have spent the past year purging most of the stupid crap we’ve bought. (Fortunately, I’m not as much of a spendster as I used to be!)
Spendster is sponsored by the National Endowment for Financial Education, and is a great way to educate consumers on the dangers of compulsive spending. These confessionals are a clever idea, but perhaps because it’s new, the site’s content is sparse right now. I hope that it will grow more robust in the future (like another great NEFE site, Smart About Money). I’d love to see more video examples of stuff that I would never buy…
[via DINKs Finance, a site I should mention more often]
October 29th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Sounds like a good idea. We can always learn from others’ mistakes. So this is another video sharing social site. Do you guys think at one point we all will be tired of too many social sites?
Cheers,
A Dawn Journal
http://www.adawnjournal.com
October 30th, 2008 at 7:40 am
I went shopping yesterday (or, as a friend at the bus stop said, I was going out “to help revive the economy”), and so today I’m wondering what I bought that will turn out to have been unnecessary or just a mistake. Well, at least almost everything was on sale (I did buy two inexpensive holiday gifts at full price). It was a little spooky to be at a mall on a Wednesday morning, pretty empty, there were huge sales, and totally solicitious sales people…
October 30th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Hello, my name is Bigpimpin, and I am a shopaholic. That realization and admission, I do realize, is the first step to my becoming whole. Since I am not yet whole, however, I am currently trying to talk my DH into purchasing six custom dining chairs to the tune of $6k . Yes, we’ll pay cash, but OB-VI-OUS-LY, our Roth IRA would reap a better return than those beautiful, beautiful chairs that I so desparately need, er, want.