The Importance of Wishlists

I used to have problem controlling my impulse buys; when a new fountain pen ink comes out, I click buy, a new washi tape that I found, *buy*, some new gadget/doodad that I saw a review of, *buy*.

Most of the time, I did this because I had no centralised way of saving my wishlist for later. Instead of possibly losing track of the website or having the item lost under a pile of other similar items in an Amazon search, I just added it to my checkout basket.

It’s true that websites like Amazon or eBay have their favourites or wishlist feature, but how do you remember a small online scrapbook suppliers store you found through Google images?

When Pinterest came out, it was a god send. Instead of impulsing buying every thing that took my fancy, I just pinned it.

I had Pinterest boards of online classes I wanted to take, clothes I wanted to buy, fountain pens that people are raving about.

Immediately, my desire for buying half the stuff I pinned faded; these items were recorded somewhere else, safe from the leaky memory of my meat brain. I can review these items at my leisure, and not be pressured by my desire to reduce the number of open tabs I have in my browser.

Also, by having categorised wishlist boards, I can easily compare items across different websites – just how many polka dot washi tape did I really need?

Of course, in keeping with not relying on social media silos, I’m thinking of pinning my Wishlist items to my blog instead.

Wish would be the perfect post kind for this, and thanks to Chris Aldrich (@(c)), I was able to set that up without much problem.

So heads up, they’ll be a few wish posts popping up on the micro.blog timeline very soon.