Avoid Impulsive Spending With a Long Standing List of Exciting Projects
When you have time to be alone, it’s easy to spend money. You open an old laptop, browse a little, and suddenly by tomorrow there should be a box of Amazon goodies. To relieve boredom, tackle a constant list of interesting projects.
Simple Dollar’s Trent Hamm has a long list of all the fun little things you could do. Remember when you wanted to try creme brulee? Put it on the list. What about your goal of learning Japanese? Add this too. I bet you have several books to open. They go to the list.
These things are easy to forget – out of sight; out of sight. But when all of your small projects are on the same list, you can simply link to it when you get bored. Hamm suggests making a list during spring cleaning because you are likely to come across all forgotten projects and activities.
And why is this particular list useful? Here’s how Hamm says it helps him:
First, all of these projects depend almost entirely on what I already have. Very few of these require any additional purchases, and those that only require basic food ingredients.
This means that all of these projects are of very low cost. Most of them are essentially free. All the necessary goods for most of them are already there, and for the rest, goods can be found on the shelves of grocery stores.
If a project is on the list, I am very happy to do it. The reason I haven’t done all of this is because there are a lot of things in my life that I enjoy doing and sometimes other things come to my mind whether I’m planning it or not.
I love this because it’s kind of a boredom bucket list. There may not be anything revolutionary on the list, but it doesn’t have to. It is filled with all the little things that we say we will do when we have free time.
Hamm has a lot more information on this – be sure to check out his full post below.
List of giant free projects | Simple dollar
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