Seven Musts for Picking the Right Gifts this Season!
1. Write a list of gifts before you go shopping.
Here's why: You get bombarded by marketing messages about 5,000 times a day. So sit quietly and write a list of purchases away from their influences.
2. Count to five before you pick up a product on impulse.
Here's why: Advertising, labels, scented packages...may trigger an impulse that makes you buy a purchase you shouldn't. So wait until reason kicks in.
3. If a product makes a promise, don't believe it.
Here's why: Marketers promise impossible things, like instantly losing weight... just to make you spend! So be skeptical!
4. Just because someone famous uses it, doesn't mean you should!
Here's why: Those famous folks get paid to endorse a product. Marketers call them "influencers." And they pay these celebrities to influence you.
5. If it says it's free...it probably isn't.
Here's why: Marketers know people love "free" stuff and concot special deals but find secret ways to make you pay. So, when in doubt, just say no.
6. Keep your name to yourself.
Heres why: Marketers may use your information to send you ads or sell it to hundreds of other marketers.
7. Read the labels
Here's why: Federal regulations require companies to give details - so get the facts... they're right on the label
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