vitamin water

Today I learned a valulable lesson about making purchases. I spent 2$ ona  vitamin water because people seem to like them and I wanted to try them, plus I was really thirsty. It was really disappointing. This just goes to show that things are never as good as you'd expect them to be, which is something that I have learned to keep in mind when I want to buy something.
And vitamin water is bad.

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Now I've been not buying anything for over 3 weeks I think. It really hasn't been that hard and I don't even need to go out and buy things now thatthe three weeks is over. I feel I have learned a lot about self control and really how unnecessary so many things are that we buy on a daily basis. The money I have saved from not buying anything from stores now can go towards things that actually are meaningful to me and not something you just eat and forget about, or some shitty thing that breaks a week after you get it. I've really grown to appriciate the things that I do have because the little things don't depriciate from the important things I have. I am really glad that I chose to do this to help the environment, because I know that over three weeks is not going to really make a difference, but this is something I know that I willl continue to do for the rest of my life, and hopefully inspire some of the people around me to do the same, and this over time, might do something to conserve the environment.

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The other day I was at the store and it was like 30 degrees outside, I was boiling and I was really thirsty. Even though I was trying hard not to buy anything I had to buy a drink, I was dehydrated. I figured that I would just drink something that had been purchased when I got home anyways. Sometimes it's really hard to not buy something when it's right there and only like 3$. I understand that marketing is designed to make you want to buy something andsometimes it's harder to overcome than others. This assignmenthas made me more aware of marketing and how it just targets people. Now that I'm aware of it and aknowledging it eveyry time I look at an add or a product it's way easier to not be pulled into it.