Spending too much？（Assignment 4）

“Spending too much” is Studio Classroom in August 13 and 14’s lesson.

Why we buy things we don’t need but want?
There is a chemical called dopamine that makes people impulsive.
People buy things they want to satisfy.

How to prevent spending too much?
Go window shopping without money and credit cards.

However, I think that is impossible.
If you don’t have money, how do you take public conveyances to shopping mall?
If you drive your own cars or ride motorcycle, you still need money to pay for parking.


So, fallowing the paragraph, I think is more common and useful.

First, make a shopping list and buy only the things on the list.
Also, you can only bring exactly enough money. Then, you won’t have extra money to buy unnecessary things.

In addition, pay in cash. I think it’s the most important.
I don’t like to use credit card and I don’t have one, too.
If I own one, I will always think I still have money to pay for everything.
That sounds terrible.

There are a lot of news about credit-card debts.
Most of people who owe money are social freshmen.
Once they get their salaries, they buy things without using their brain before.

Many people complain that shopping is their way to release their stress, but spend too much money can cause another kind of stress.
The better way is to find another way to release stress such as exercise.
That way, you can save a lot of money.

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At the beginning, I only listened to the radio.
However, I couldn’t get use to the speaker’s pronounce. I could only understand 60~70%.
Then, I listened again with reading the paragraph. Besides some vocabularies, I could understand the whole part.
Finally, I checked the words I don’t know, and then, I did some practice.

This paragraph is not so hard, but very useful.