I Broke My Rule About Shopping on Black Friday. Here's What I Learned
They say it's important to practice what you preach, and usually I manage to do just that. Case in point: I'm currently saving for retirement, staying out of debt other than my mortgage, and keeping tabs on my investments to ensure they're performing the way I need them to. These are all things I write about constantly, and so I aim to apply that same advice to my personal finances.
But I do need to come clean about one major mistake I made around this time last year. It was on Black Friday, a day I pledged never to shop on. Yet lo and behold, when I opened the fridge that morning, I realized we were low on milk and produce. Since we had the day off and weren't busy, my husband and I decided to venture over to our nearby warehouse club store and restock on grocery essentials. Little did we know that $1,000 later, we'd come home with a new TV and a whole lot of guilt.
GRRR. NEXT TIME I NEED TO LISTEN TO...ME. IMAGE SOURCE: GETTY IMAGES.
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