Reverse Fomo: Buyers Remorse

We all regret some purchase at one time or another. I have had times where I have this fear of missing out (FOMO) on certain products, or launches. Companies will hype you up, and say there are limited number of products, so you better get yours now! This in turn makes you feel this anxiety, like if you miss out, your whole world is going to be turned upside down.

There are times I get so involved with a company or a product or a certain fad (when I say fad, I mean these things we connect importance to at only certain times of our life). These are unlike necessary things like basic need-things, but could be a fashion fad, or, in my case, a planner fad. For example, at one point, I was using Happy Planner as my main planner for organizing my life and my business. While most people buy one planner, I was obsessed with collecting a new planner for each life category I thought I needed. By this I mean, I would use an entire planner for health, an entire planner for a reading planner, an entire planner for journaling, etc… As you can imagine, this got really expensive after awhile. Happy Planner is relatively cheap, but when you’re buying seven of them, it adds up quite quickly.

I did the same thing over a couple of years with Bath and Body Works three-wick candles. I needed to have all my favourite scents at all times. Forty eight candles later, in rubbermaid containers in my basement which have been sitting there for years and years…what does that tell you? In this case, I know that I will use them eventually.