Have you ever entered a shop with something in mind and came out with totally different outcome? Here are the scenarios ....
i. you went into a hair saloon to have a "Wash and Blow" session for your hair and hours later came out having a hair cut, a different hair color, highlights, maybe with a couple of bottles of shampoo, conditioner and treatment oil?
ii. you went into this reflexology shop/centre to have a feet massage and ended up buying all the unprescribed traditional medicines and oil which you never touched afterwards?
iii. You went to this spa because you have got this discount voucher for a facial treatment and ended up signing a full course of face and slimming treatment?
Yes, you entered the shops/centre to spend say RM50 and came out spending RM400 to even RM5000. For the softhearted ones, we often fall prey to these "experts" who managed to convince us to forget our initial intentions. I used to be one as described above and still am whenever i am not careful enough.
The following are guidelines to prevent from being rerouted from your initial intention. They're not meant for those who actually wish to lavish themselves and can afford to. The guideline also by no means intend any sign of disrespect for the service provider but just ways to keep our expenditure within our budget.
Guidelines include:
1. Have a strong resolution before entering the shop and stick to it. Remember how much you want to spend. Just smile and say yes to whatever they say but don't buy or sign anything.
2. If you know that you may fail at above, as an additional safety measure, don't bring too much cash when you enter such shops. Just tell them "maybe next time, i don't have enough cash with me". Flash your wallet if you have to.
3. Leave your credit card home or somewhere else safe. Carrying this card around is very dangerous and asking for trouble. I normally will leave my credit card somewhere first everytime I go to get a facial treatment otherwise i ended up buying lots of their products and sign on the next 20 facial course which would last me two years.
4. Last but not least, always look like you are rushing for another important appointment as soon as your task is completed
Good Luck.
