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Impulse Purchases.

Roy

Does anyone else have a problem with not being able to purchase something without researching it deeply first?

I find it really difficult, it’s practically impossible to just buy something on impulse. I can spend hours comparing and researching an item on the internet.
I ordered a new shower pump today, that was after 2 days of looking at performance, reviews, type of components in it, connection type and cost. My wife just decides she likes a product and orders it. Can autistic people just impulse buy?

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  • Roy said:
    Can autistic people just impulse buy?

    I have a tendency to want to over analise prospective purchases but because this can consume a lot of time I don't have I will use mindfulness to set a deadline on how long I can research for then I take whatever has the best score.

    This means I need to very quickly set a ranking system for the features, whether they are essential, desirable or nice to have then give the score in each of these subject a weighting based on how important it is.

    For example if I was buying a car I would rate the fuel efficiency (no electric cars for me - way too limited) as an essential category, the performance in the desirable category and safety in the nice to have category.

    So if it scored 5 out of 10 for fuel efficiency I would multiply this by 5 to give it 25 points

    If it scored 7 out of 10 for perfrormance I would multiply this by 3 to give 21 points

    If it scored 8 out of 10 for safety it would get multiplied by 1 to give 8 points

    So this car scored 54 points and I can compare other cars with the same methods to give a quick but fair comparison and can make a decision as quickly as I can find the facts.

    I cannot afford to waste time on this as I buy a lot of stuff for my renovation business and need to save time by being efficient.

    Maybe a version of this could work for you and free your time up. Trust the process and it can stop your mind from dominating you on this.

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  • Roy said:
    Can autistic people just impulse buy?

    I have a tendency to want to over analise prospective purchases but because this can consume a lot of time I don't have I will use mindfulness to set a deadline on how long I can research for then I take whatever has the best score.

    This means I need to very quickly set a ranking system for the features, whether they are essential, desirable or nice to have then give the score in each of these subject a weighting based on how important it is.

    For example if I was buying a car I would rate the fuel efficiency (no electric cars for me - way too limited) as an essential category, the performance in the desirable category and safety in the nice to have category.

    So if it scored 5 out of 10 for fuel efficiency I would multiply this by 5 to give it 25 points

    If it scored 7 out of 10 for perfrormance I would multiply this by 3 to give 21 points

    If it scored 8 out of 10 for safety it would get multiplied by 1 to give 8 points

    So this car scored 54 points and I can compare other cars with the same methods to give a quick but fair comparison and can make a decision as quickly as I can find the facts.

    I cannot afford to waste time on this as I buy a lot of stuff for my renovation business and need to save time by being efficient.

    Maybe a version of this could work for you and free your time up. Trust the process and it can stop your mind from dominating you on this.

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