I need money for important stuff.
How do I avoid buying ice cream when I feel like buying it?
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As someone already said, make it hard for yourself to buy the ice cream. Don’t carry around money you can spend in the blink of an eye. I have two different accounts. One account where I have most of my money for the month and another account with only a small sum. The account with only a smaller sum is the account directly connected to my card. Meaning that when I want to buy something I often have to transfer money, making it a more active decision.
Classic tip is also not to go to the grocery store while hungry.
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I need money for important stuff.
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Desire is drawing the bow, until you feel your arms at their full tension. Then pause, enjoy that tension, taste the anticipation, because it is the anticipation of something desirable that is more enjoyable, than the actual thing.
Top Chefs know this, that people don't really enjoy or appreciate their dishes beyond the first couple of bites, rest is just conditioned compulsion of finishing the plate.
So just draw out your desire, neither reject nor give in, just be on the edge. The longer you draw it out, greater the pleasure either way - give in or reject.
Don't try to fight it by deciding that you won't give in and then sulk in the guilt or disappointment. Just delay the decision. The ice cream will wait for you.
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“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Desire is drawing the bow, until you feel your arms at their full tension. Then pause, enjoy that tension, taste the anticipation, because it is the anticipation of something desirable that is more enjoyable, than the actual thing.
Top Chefs know this, that people don't really enjoy or appreciate their dishes beyond the first couple of bites, rest is just conditioned compulsion of finishing the plate.
So just draw out your desire, neither reject nor give in, just be on the edge. The longer you draw it out, greater the pleasure either way - give in or reject.
Don't try to fight it by deciding that you won't give in and then sulk in the guilt or disappointment. Just delay the decision. The ice cream will wait for you.
I feel compelled to recite this:
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Maybe we can make a version for buying ice cream
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Someone I saw in a hospital is lactose intolerant, and there they served ice cream to all the patients, she, of course, said that she doesn't want ice cream, and she had to cover her eyes from seeing the ice cream.
Complicated for lactose intolerant people and people like me.
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They don't serve lactose free ice cream where I live.
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i'm sure they do it's in most grocery stores and also health food stores. *shrugs*
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There's Aldi in the United States as well.
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There's Aldi in the United States as well.
I know, and there's Lidl too. But they're German supermarkets.
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