I thought that she would be pretty excited over it. To bring it to office, plug it in and start to use it in a couple of days upon receiving it.
I recently asked about the item. It's been over a month and she hasn't started using it yet.
I was pretty upset about this. Cos to me, this indicated that she had no real interest or any real use of the product. If so, then the item could have been better used by someone else.
Not to mention, this is a bad habit of unnecessary clutter.
If I never reminded her about the item, she would just leave it in the corner of the office and it would sit there forever.
To me, this isn't about whether the item is free or paid for. Rather, it is... Do you want the item? Do you need the item? Even if it is an unnecessary want, like a leg massager, if it is used regularly, a couple of times a week, I think that's fine. But I know people who buy a massager, for the first month, they are really excited about it, then the initial thrill dies down and the item sits in the living room for the next few years.
So I told her, if you have an interest in the item, try it out, use it. If you like it and use it pretty regularly, then keep it. Else, I would prefer to give it away to someone else. Else keeping it is just unnecessary clutter. If I kept everything that I thought would be "good to have" my whole place would be in a mess.
And I think it happens to a lot of us. We may see a nice tea set, and think... "Woahh... it would be so nice to make tea and sip tea in a pretty tea set and watch TV on a weekend." and I know people who have bought nice pretty tea sets, which sit in their cupboards just looking pretty and taking up space.
Or that exercise machine/equipment which was purchased with the promise of washboard abs if you use it for 5 minutes everyday... Hey I don't doubt the advertisements... The problem is... how many people would diligently use the machine for 5 minutes everyday??? Sounds like a short period of time. But I'm sure many people wouldn't use the exercise machine... cos... "I'm just too busy..."
Many a times, we buy things for what we imagine it to be. We imagine ourselves sitting on a nice sunny afternoon drinking tea and chatting with friends... We imagine our washboard abs when we see the advertisements. We imagine baking cakes and muffins when we buy the nice baking set along with the muffin tray, we imagine sitting on that nice Osim massager after a tiring day's work, etc etc...
But the truth is... most of the time, not all... but MOST of the time, we don't utilize the items in the way we imagine it to be. We don't use it as often, or we just store it in the cupboard, never to see it ever again. It's very hard for humans to change their habits. HARD, not impossible.
But more often than not, if someone is used to coming home after work and watching TV, they are highly unlikely going to use any exercise equipment for 5 minutes.
Or if someone is used to taking care of their kids after work and rushing with their homework, cleaning up the house, etc, they aren't going to suddenly find 20 minutes to sit in that massage chair.
Or if on weekends, someone is used to going out for activities, or catching up on sleep, they aren't going to suddenly want to bake cakes regularly.
Of course there are people who successfully change their habits and become successful in getting washboard abs or baking nice cakes as a hobby... but I'm realistic... for every one of the success cases, I can easily find 9 others who have kept their purchases in the cupboard.
So how much DO you really want something?
Do you really want it and will really use it? Or is it just that you imagine that you would use it well?
Look around your house, in your cupboards, storeroom, etc... how many items are sitting there due to unnecessary purchases?
Too many pots and pans? A blender used only a couple of times? Baking equipment?
All sound familiar?
Hey it's not that I'm immune to this. I have a stack of stools for guests... except that I only had guests in my house during the first few months when I first moved in to my own place. After which, the stack of stools is just taking up space in the storeroom.
I also have a blender and other stuff in the cupboards as well, mostly stuff which I thought that I would need when I moved into my own place.
But now I'm a bit more aware so I tend to consider any item and how often I will use it before any purchase or even if I get it free. If I'm not going to use it often, then might as well not buy it or give it away.
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