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Tips for saving money when shopping: Always ask yourself three questions while shopping to figure out how to save money. The first question is “why sell it this way”. Only when you know how merchants influence your judgment to make you spend more can you ignore their interference and make choices that are in your own interest. The second question is “What is its inherent value?” ”It’s an easy question to understand: when we buy something, we pay not only the production cost of the item itself, but also prices that include advertising, labor costs, rent, and so on. So every time we go to a pharmacy to buy medicine, we ask the pharmacist to recommend options for us, and then we exclude all the brands they suggest. The reason is simple: kickbacks for drugs are an open secret; the drugs that salespeople recommend to us must be those for which they receive the highest kickbacks. The third question is “What’s the benefit for us?” To be honest, most people are not aware of the actual value of the goods when making purchases. When the Pearl King developed black pearls back then, there weren’t many customers, as no one knew how much they were worth. So he placed the black pearl in a dazzling window on Fifth Avenue, and included diamonds and rubies in all the advertisements mentioning it. Naturally, black pearls thus became precious jewels. The most important tip: if you enjoy buying it, then it’s worth it. What do you think, fellow sailors? Reply to 2 Wealth: What you said is great; there’s even more wealth to be made through financial management.