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My barber told me to stop buying stuff the second I see an ad, so I tested it for 30 days and saved $187
My barber Marcus has been cutting my hair for 4 years at a shop in Sacramento and he drops these random tips while he works. About 5 weeks back he told me his rule is simple, he waits 3 days before buying anything he sees in a sponsored post, no exceptions. I rolled my eyes at first because who actually does that, but I wrote down every single thing my feed pushed at me for 30 days out of boredom. Turns out I got hit with 41 ads in the first week alone, mostly for that stupid mushroom coffee and some magnetic phone mount. Half of the stuff I would have bought on the spot, and when I went back 3 days later I couldn't even remember why I wanted it. By day 30 I had only pulled the trigger on 2 things, a $14 cord organizer and a $9 pair of work gloves, and the total impulse spending came out to $187 less than my normal month. The weird part is my feed got worse, not better, because now it thinks I am a guy who loves gloves. Anyone else tried a cooling off rule like this, and did your ads calm down or ramp up?
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