What is Money Wasting

I’m sure all of us—yes ALL of us—have spent money on something that after the fact, we may have wished that we didn’t buy (Or maybe you know someone like this). I’m one of those people. I buy things all the time that in stores look incredibly interesting, yet when I get home and see what I actually bought, I am overwhelmingly disappointed—I do have a tendency to throw receipts away. I guess you can say that this is the 5 year old that still lives in me.
As a sports fan, I am particularly ripe for marketers’ taking as I ALWAYS find it necessary to own the latest edition of everything to do with my sports and my favorite teams when it comes to jerseys, hats, shirts, equipment, etc.—except I still use an old school wooden hockey stick! But as one of these fans with an obsession for being always up to date with what is new and exciting, I waste lots of money. But mind you, I am not a blind babe in the woods who doesn’t realize that I have been dooped, I am rather ever conscious that when I am buying the things I buy, I even understand many times before hand that later I will regret this purchase. I guess I just can’t control myself!
I know I am not the only person in the world with this problem. If I wasn’t the only person with this problem, then sports’ entities wouldn’t so commonly assemble new money taking weapons of destruction—“items” in simpleton’s terms—that seem ever so appealing upon first viewing.
Oh sorry, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dan Marrazza and I am a 20 year old sports media major at Ithaca College. And if you haven’t been able to tell, allow me to confess, I am a shopaholic. For any problem, I guess the first step in solving it is understanding and admitting that you have a problem. I admit it and accept it, I have a shopping problem. But while this is the first step to solving any problem, I understand that my shopping problem is by no means a curable ailment. It is who I am. But while I understand that I am an incurable patient of shopping addiction, I, with this very blog, am set to educate my readers to the best for my ability as to what marketers’ schemes and what particular items of potential interest are obviously money traps. I, as being victimized many times over understand when these schemes are present, and I am set to uncover them. So fret no more, I am here now and you, a target of marketers, is about to be saved…at least if I am successful.
I encounter these marketing schemes all the time, so I have plenty to get off of my chest. So, with this blog, each week, I will introduce you to a new topic that you may or may not be aware of and with this, together, we can save some potential victims of the dastardly marketer’s scheme to thicken their own wallet at your expense.
To give you a tiny preview as to what you can expect to read, in this blog you can expect to read about professional teams additions of alternate uniforms—hats and jerseys, bobblehead dolls featuring the likeness of individual players, and even the National Hockey League’s decision to develop a new type of jersey for the 2007-08 season that while being of different material, feel, and appearance, also is seeing at least a dozen National Hockey League teams—my beloved Islanders included—completely change the style of their jersey and in even a few cases, of how teams have gone as far to completely change their logo.
My point is that as new jerseys and as new bobbleheads are introduced, sports fans clamor to own the entire collection and as sports fans get closer to obtaining the entire collection of any given item, their money supply gets lesser and lesser as marketers money supplies gets bigger and bigger.
So sit tight and before you buy something—before you buy anything!—it has become your duty to become educated—or you can read what I have to say—and aware of what is going on around you so you can beat this perhaps deadly epidemic of shopping addiction. And hey, if you can beat this epidemic—or even if you can’t—don’t hesitate to start educating others of these evil powers that be of money sucking prowess because if we as shopping addicts can some together as one pathetic group of individuals hoping to maintain their paycheck, then perhaps, we can all make progress and maybe even prevent more marketing schemes from being launched.
So stay tuned, and if you have experiences that are relevant to what I have to say, then by all means, post comments on my blog. Comments promote awareness, and awareness cures shopping addicts!