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Last week, I missed the chance to pickup an expresso machine for half price because I wasn’t in the country. Yesterday, I missed the Baskin-Robbins 31 cent scoop night where I could’ve gotten a scoop of ice cream for only 31 cents. When I first thought about all the sales events I’ve missed these days, I felt disappointed because I wanted all those things. After thinking deeper into it though, this might’ve been blessing in disguise.

Don’t get me wrong, I still love ice cream and really want the expresso machine. I just feel that I’m still the same person without those things. Without the ice cream, I really don’t feel any different at all. Sure I didn’t get to go out last night, but I was tired and probably wouldn’t have really enjoyed it if I went.

The expresso machine was also something my wife and I really wanted, but are we any happier with it? Not necessarily. Would we appreciate the money in our savings instead of it being used for the gadget? Probably.

It’s hard to draw the line on where this argument should stop because I can say this for almost everything that I can buy. Maybe from now on, we should wait 2 weeks everytime we want to buy something. If we still really want it after 2 weeks, then it’s time to think about how to get it. If we didn’t really think about it after 2 weeks, then we’ve just saved some money.