Even if you ’re not acompulsiveshopper , when the holiday season come around , the temptation to purchase yourself as many gifts as you buy others can sometimes be too much to resist . If you ’re having troublesticking toyour vacation budget , Finder.com’sIceboxis a handy solution . The Chrome extension is design to help you say no to impulse purchases ( even thebest hatful ! ) , asPSFKalerts us .
The extension turns those bad " bargain " button on retail sites into buttons that ask you instead if you need to put the detail " on ice , " or into what amounts to a practical shopping score . you may only reach the detail you " put on ice rink " after a certain amount of sentence has passed — what Icebox call the " cooling - off period . "
You get to choose how long your cooling - off period is , so if you ’re just seek to make yourself remember double about buy something , you might coiffe it to thaw out in a day or two , or for a enceinte purchase you ’re eyeing , you could arrange it to be a much longer period , like30 years — after which you ’ll really jazz whether or not you need ( or really , reallywant ) something . you’re able to set up the reference to work for specific sites , in case you demand to exempt , say , theMental Floss storefrom your block .
When it comes to impulse purchase , that firm desire to buy something often evanesce over time , mean that in many instance , you might not even end up click " buy " after your cooling full stop is over . During a season when all your favorite sites are publishinggreat gift guides , we plausibly all have a few shining production pages we need to put on meth .
Get Icebox for loose in the Chromestore .
[ h / tPSFK ]
