Ai-yi-yi.

[conuly]

Somewhere along the line I discovered that if I have an impulse to buy something, I can curb it by shoving it in my Amazon cart and walking away. This works REALLY WELL - if I have the money later, I can buy it then, and I don't buy it when I really don't have the cash!

Except that if I need to buy something else I need to shove a lot of things out of the cart into "save for later" and, um, I'm not really sure I want to say how many things are in there.

I've started deleting things I'll either never buy or will look up again if I decide I need, and I've also begun moving games and puzzles into a bona fide wishlist but after a good hour of work I've still yet to reach the bottom. It doesn't help that Amazon insists on endless scroll instead of sensible page numbers, nor that once you've spent more than a minute on the page it automatically refreshes the entire thing if you delete an item. Maybe I should start another list or two for other things? Adding things onto lists rather than the cart is such a hassle, though.

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Comments

[shadowkat]

Somewhere along the line I discovered that if I have an impulse to buy something, I can curb it by shoving it in my Amazon cart and walking away. This works REALLY WELL - if I have the money later, I can buy it then, and I don't buy it when I really don't have the cash!

Yep, me too. Figured that out finally myself. Along with this wonderful thing called "Prime Wardrobe" -- where I can have four shoes sent to me, try them on, and then send them back if they don't fit for free.

Doesn't work with Kindle unfortunately. You either have to buy or forget about it. As a result...I have a lot of books on my Kindle...that I really shouldn't have bought, but where cheap at the time. The Kindle Daily Deal is a dangerous thing...not helped by the fact that a percentage goes to the charity of my choice.

[conuly]

Ah, you can return Kindle books for a refund if you've only read a small part of them.

[archangelbeth]

I thought that the Zon would have some Mystery Number Of Returned Books and if you exceeded it, they trashed your account entirely... Have they fixed that?

[conuly]

Well, so don't do it too often. They did ding me once when they presumably thought I'd returned too many in one day.

[archangelbeth]

Heh. I just stopped bothering with the Kindle and switched to iBooks. Where I try not to buy too much! ...I need to get back to reading some stuff. Uuuugh, where is my BRAIN? And concentration? Uuuuugh.

[shadowkat]

And...do it within two or three days of ordering. Not six months to two years....;-)

But I have done that for a couple.

[conuly]

:D

[ephemera]

I use Kindle Samples as the equivalent action for kindle books

[shadowkat]

Yes, I've done that too...and that would admittedly be the bright thing to do..but, it comes on sale, I snatch it. Then I think, much, much later, why did I do that? This book no longer interests me at all. LOL!