Blew $200 on a fancy paper planner that I never touched after January

I got suckered into buying one of those leather-bound planners with all the goal-setting prompts and habit trackers. Cost me $200 and I was so hyped in December, filled out the first week perfectly. By the second week of January I was already skipping days, and by February it was sitting on my desk collecting coffee rings. Now I just use a free notes app on my phone for grocery lists and it works better. What's the most you've wasted on something that was supposed to 'fix your life'?

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thea1431d agoRising Star

My sister spent $400 on a juicer thinking she'd drink kale smoothies every morning now it's holding down a corner of her counter collecting dust. It's funny how we convince ourselves that spending money is the same as actually changing a habit.

grant.luna1d ago

@thea143 is right that spending money doesn't equal changing habits, but I think the juicer comparison is off. A $400 juicer is a machine that actually works if you plug it in and use it. A $200 planner is just paper and ink that tricks you into feeling productive without doing real work. The juicer at least has a chance to be useful if someone gets motivated again someday. The planner is just dead trees the second you stop writing in it. I wasted $150 on a meditation app subscription for the same reason, it felt like buying a membership at a gym I never went to.