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The less time you spend in a store, the less damage you'll do with impulse buying, says Price. Get in and get out.

"You should enter the store with a purpose and leave after accomplishing that goal," Price says.

With all the time in the world to just wander around, you're always going to find something you want and buy it.

"We are pressured by society to have lots of things, and this has been going on for many years," says Price. "People used to be buried with their best possessions and the more they had, the higher their status in society."


 

 

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