Janet Vargas - Owner of this Website
YES from Mailouts to Phone Texts and Emails and Flybuys of Different Kinds; Google Adds; Store Memberships (Oh Don't Subscribe to Those!) TV and Radio Commercials; Door Canvassing and Marketing Phone Calls; Etc, Etc, in case I've left anything out:)
They have become SO DEMANDING of OUR ATTENTION - in Every Way Possible - it's really quite Maddening! Does anyone Know what I'm talking about?
"Yes we ALL DO, don't we?"
And it HAS Become a Bit Much - that's for SURE - Not ONE Person hasn't been Bombarded by this Hideous, CRAZY Phenomena that has become a Daily Reality in different Shapes and Forms.
I really feel for Everyone (me included) would they Please STOP? But NO, there seems to be No Way of Stopping All This - not much anyway - this Insideous Nonsense! This Incessant Competing for Our MONEY when So Many Pockets are Short.
Sometimes we Comment and think things like "It seems this World has become One Big Money Making Machine"…………………. "They're So Eager to Get Every Dollar"…………………. "How Dare You Clutter MY Email" ……………….. "Oh Not Again!
I would Like Some Peace"
A Classic Example of how EAGER to Get Our Dollars:
Win a share of 20 million Flybuys points!*
Members earn 1 entry for every $20 spent in store or online with a linked Flybuys.
That's if you Pay Them $200 per Year for Coles Plus Membership. Hey?
(the privilege of gambling those $$$s shall we say?)
That's $1,000AUD every 5 Years!!!
There are So Many Schemes these days where you PAY to SAVE - that's if we Really do. Very Little really and How Many of us Win Lotteries?
Statement on my Homepage:
So happy to say I have not placed any Google Ads on any of my Websites. Good Aye? I just Let my Visitors Enjoy All the Webpages in Peace without "pestering them!"
In Australia, we're almost literally plagued with Ads…. ADS Everywhere! You almost can't go and drive a few streets without finding them "right in your face!" somewhere, somehow, they will be there!!!
Oh, did I say something about "Ads?"
Honestly, in our country, it's almost impossible to set foot out of one's door without Stepping on One! (figure of speech) That actually happened to me recently - stepped on one!
I bet you all can relate with that hey? - because we are inundated with them, most people share my disliking for them these days!:)
A Few Ways To Save
Learning the Secret of Contentment - Appreciating what we Have
(Not so much wanting More and Different. Contentment will guard you against that which only makes things difficult)
Limiting the amount of TV we watch in the Evenings Etc - It's Crowded with Ads, right?
They always tell us How to Think; What to Buy; Where we should Go; Making Their Products sound like the Best Thing since Sliced Bread. It's ALL Psychologically worked out too, did You Know?
Starting a Budget - if you have not tried this before - it does help. And you can make it a Little Flexible every so often. Even my Sister who had a good wage was pretty thrifty with her Budget, so she could have a Holiday Overseas every so many years and she didn't spend up big when she was on them. She enjoyed the Experience in preference to Luxury.
Consider having an Ad Blocker on your Browser (Chrome, Firefox Etc) to Stop the astonishing amount of ADS and SCAMS we find over the Internet. That will help.
Note this: when we go places Shopping, there is a "Chemical" in our Body that is triggered when we See Something we Like a Lot or Really Appeals to us that makes it hard to Resist. So when you find something Irresistible, do your best to remember that, walk away and Cool down - don't stay in the Hot Zone (so to speak) Hey? Sometimes that's asking for Problems.
Resist booking up so many things on Time Payments AND Overuse of Credit Cards which incur Interest AND Interest upon Interest when we pay those amounts Slowly.
Try having a Separate Bank Account for PayPal/Internet with a Limited Amount in it, so you are Not Spending from Savings. And when you Go Shopping, take that Card with you OR a Limited amount of Cash so you don't Overspend. That helps a lot of people immensely. Some Shoppers even take a Shopping List with them, they don't go over. They say that Helps them too. They may allow a certain amount of dollars for Helpful Items but not Impulse Spending.
A Few More Ideas Coming!