6 Ways To Save For Big Ticket Items

In 2023 interviewer Bruce Bozzi on Table for Two asked actress Sarah Jessica Parker what she’d most like to give to her children. She responded she wants her children to have the ability to “pine for” or “want things,” believing it to be a positive trait. Sarah’s childhood of sometimes in want taught her the value of hard work and gave her the motivation to earn things through her own efforts.

Moreover, compared to instant gratification, sometimes the anticipation and sacrifice of saving up for a purchase, whether a necessity or a splurge gives us additional pleasure, endorphins, or satisfaction as we get closer and closer to reaching our goal. Often we appreciate a yearned for article all the more because we worked and saved to have enough moola to finally buy it.

6 Ways To Save Extra Cash may involve cutting back on other luxuries and impulse buys:

(1) Never signing up or cutting the cable. 

(2) Never signing up or cancelling subscriptions.

(3) Cooking at home and eating out less, plus looking at the supermarket flyers for sales.

(4) Walking to our destinations whenever possible to save transportation costs and the price of a gym membership!

(5) Washing, reusing and repurposing what we already own when an item is re-useable. 

(6) Researching and keeping an eye on the item we are pining for to catch it at a discount.

In a similar vain, European parents with their young children along may shop in the morning at a pastry shop with the understanding that it won’t get eaten until after dinner. They are teaching their children to wait for treats.

Waiting can double the pleasure: Often the anticipation can bring us as much joy as the purchase, the treat or the splurge itself!

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