Please verbally bash me to quell the urge to buy the new iphone

Raquela

I'm the same. But I'm not tempted by it at all - in fact, I'm really peed off - whose stupid idea was it to put a fancy speaker in it? now the local idiots will be even more anti-social and annoying with their inability to use headphones in public!!

I have to say, I did succumb when the 6 came out, but you know what? My 6 still looks like new, and that big drop from a £50odd quid a month contract to around a tenner a month is pretty sweet. I admit that I love my phone, I was always a proper Apple geek, but, I'd like to love my current phone for at least another year, probably more (probably as long as it takes for them to make it obsolete...)

emg

The keynote speech is full of psychological tricks designed to press your buttons and make you feel like you have to have that phone. They really need you to want it so they do everything they can to make you. I found it interesting to read about advertising methods as now, if I find myself getting sucked in I make myself look for the techniques they are using and it brings me back to objective thinking. Feel proud of yourself that you can see through the smoke and mirrors and that you havent fallen for it.

dazla

Honestly, you don't need it. It's just a phone.

SailorSam

I think i paid £17.50 for my phone in Tesco. And that was with £10 of minutes.
As you said the new Iphone costs more than my car is worth,
Do you need it ? Will it do a lot more than the phone you've already got ?

Smodlet

Why does anyone allow themselves to be sucked in by advertising? It's called free will! Take some responsibility and stop blaming everyone else for your inability to exert it! Ye gods. Some of us record TV programmes for no other reason than that we have no patience with adverts and that is the only way to whiz through them; not because we are afraid of being sucked in but purely because we value our time.

itchyfeet123

Smodlet wrote: »

Why does anyone allow themselves to be sucked in by advertising? It's called free will! Take some responsibility and stop blaming everyone else for your inability to exert it! Ye gods. Some of us record TV programmes for no other reason than that we have no patience with adverts and that is the only way to whiz through them; not because we are afraid of being sucked in but purely because we value our time.

I hate to break it to you, but you have been suckered in by advertising. Maybe you can afford everything you buy, and maybe you even believe every purchase you make is 100% rational. Doesn't make you less of a hypocrite, just means you're blind as well.

Smodlet

Really, itchyfeet? What have I bought then? Name one item.

itchyfeet123

Smodlet wrote: »

Really, itchyfeet? What have I bought then? Name one item.

I have no idea because obviously I have no idea what you own. But I know you are a living breathing human and therefore not rational, despite your best intentions. Homo economicus is a myth.

silverwhistle

wrigglepig wrote: »

Your total unsecured debt is a little over £10k

iPhone £719 (minimum)
Earbuds £159 (you will be tempted!)
Case £20 (estimate)

Total £898, or 8.9% of your total current debt.


Then, what happens when a new 'life event' happens?

Like losing the earbuds (or one of them) down the drain or loo?

Someone else commented that they couldn't imagine people buying this on a whim. I can, but not people with large debts. I've got enough left over in my current account to buy one, but I won't. That's probably the reason the money is in my account in the first place, my income isn't great.

Not sure the slap with a wet kipper will help. How about a haddock?

Frozen, of course...

Anyway, good luck with controlling your urges: the important bit is acknowledging them!

abby1234519

FBaby wrote: »

Well done you for dealing with this. Really, this is hard work and you are doing it. It will get easier and easier.


This is really what you need to continue to do, focus on the reasons why you have such a strong desire to act on impulse. I don't want to come across as rude at all, but were you spoilt as a kid by which when you wanted something, you got it right away? In which case, it is nothing but a hard habit to break (well not nothing, but you can deal with it like any other habit). Or is it the exact opposite, that you've grown constantly frustrated that you could have the latest gadget that your friends had, making you feel inadequate so now that you technically can get the money, you associate buying this things will an increase self-esteem?

Either way, do congratulate yourself for fighting the urge. You should feel much better about yourself for doing so than you would feel having it.

2nd option - didn't have much freedom as a child, I don't think I was every really bought much as a child. I got a tv for my room when I was 16 and a 3310 nokia when I was old enough to go wandering but generally my friends could afford things that I couldn't. Don't think thats got to do with it though, I really struggle with wanting the newest of things. It's weird - I went through a phase where I'd spend hundreds on new clothes that I didn't even fit....although that I can relate to insecurity to be fair