All posts tagged: Impulse

I couldn’t stop impulse buying – but these ‘buy less’ tricks helped me save hundreds | Shopping

I couldn’t stop impulse buying – but these ‘buy less’ tricks helped me save hundreds | Shopping

Published by Sam Flores

I’m pretty careful with money, I say as I trip over piles of Amazon Prime boxes. I’ve never really been the shopping type, I insist as I stare at drawers groaning with unworn Asos clothes. Look how much I care about the environment, I tell myself as I click “buy now” on yet another battery charger I bought to replace the one, two or five I’ve lost around the house somewhere. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. You don’t have to be a shopaholic to be drowning in stuff. All it takes is an averagely mindless approach to impulse buying, until one day your home is heaving with a personal landfill of tat. I lived a positively anti-consumer existence before online shopping came along. But when one-click, instant-delivery buying took all the effort out of it, my inner zombie consumer was unleashed. These days, I click the “buy now” button several times a week. It’s never for me, you understand, it’s for …

Texas talk of swallowing eastern New Mexico is an old impulse

Texas talk of swallowing eastern New Mexico is an old impulse

Published by Sam Flores

When the speaker of the Texas House recently outlined his priorities for the next legislative session, he mentioned tax relief, the development of data centers and a notion that sent many eyebrows skyward. Dustin Burrows, a Republican from Lubbock, directed the chamber’s governmental oversight committee to study the legal and economic implications of Texas absorbing one or more counties in eastern New Mexico. The “conversation,” Burrows told the Dallas Morning News, “is ultimately about culture, opportunity and the right to choose a path that reflects the shared values of the Permian and Delaware basins,” a vast desert expanse awash in oil and natural gas. Apparently, Texas lawmakers have time and money to burn. The notion of the swaggering state swallowing a chunk of its resistant neighbor is completely far-fetched. Just four states have been carved from the territory of others: Kentucky, Maine, Vermont and West Virginia. And it’s been quite a spell since the last time that happened. West Virginia split off from Confederate Virginia in 1863. Realistically, there is no end of hurdles — …

Intuition Asks for Courage; Impulse Demands Relief

Intuition Asks for Courage; Impulse Demands Relief

Published by Jenni Sidey

How often do we end up regretting the same thing: not the mistakes we made, but the gut feeling we ignored? In hindsight—senno del poi, as Italians say—we become champions at spotting the obvious: That was the right idea. That was the path. I knew it. But when we’re inside the moment, it’s maddeningly hard to tell whether we’re hearing true intuition… or just witnessing impulsivity in a convincing disguise. So how can we tell the difference? A clue hiding in the words themselves The word intuition comes from the Latin intueor: in (“inside”) + tueor (“to look, to watch”). Literally, it means “to look within.” Intuition is that immediate kind of knowing that arrives suddenly, without a neat explanation, often without words—like you can see into a situation. Impulse, on the other hand, comes from the Latin impulsus, the past participle of impellere: “to push forward.” The root image is a shove. A surge. A momentum that wants movement now. From one angle, intuition and impulse can look similar. Both tend to arrive without …