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Save Money With This Small Habit | Mel Robbins #shorts

16 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, Mel Robbins addresses impulsive spending and offers a simple behavioral tactic to curb it. She advises anyone who tends to make spontaneous purchases to impose a one‑week “cooling‑off” period before buying anything that costs more than $100. The pause allows the initial excitement to fade, revealing whether the item is truly needed or affordable. Robbins emphasizes that if you can’t afford to buy something twice, you shouldn’t buy it even once, and that consistently applying this rule can dramatically reduce wasteful, unnecessary purchases and improve overall financial health.

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If you're the kind of person who's impulsive with your money, like I used to be, wait a week. Wait a week means you're giving yourself a cooling-off period. Because the truth is, you're always going to be excited by the idea of buying something that you don't need and that you don't have the money for. If you can't afford to buy it twice, then you can't afford to buy it once. But the main thing that you and I are struggling with is the shocking amount of useless stuff that we buy on impulse that we don't need. So if you see something that you want and it's more than $100, wait a week. Because once the initial, I need that thing that just popped up, is gone, you realize you don't need it or you don't want it or you can't afford it or that you're not that stupid to waste your money that you've been working really hard to make on something dumb like that. Wait a week, and I promise you, you will see a big difference.