The low-to-high option

If you're an avid online shopper like me, you know that most shopping Web sites allow you to filter out your options by choosing from a dropdown menu. The most common menu items include price sorting from high to low, low to high, new items first, and most popular items first. Some sites even combine new and most popular items to show first. What an idea!
As someone on The Shopping Diet, I take advantage, every single time I online shop, of the low-to-high sorting option. Because I always shop within a certain price range, the option lets me know when I'm about to, or have hit my mark.
I recommend this shopping trick, via The Shopping Diet, 100 percent to my readers. If you set a final point for yourself, say $30 or $40, the site will let you know when you've reached it, and you can stop browsing in that certain area. If you force yourself to stop browsing at that point you've set for yourself, you are less likely to go over, or make a purchase that is more than you are willing to spend.

So how does it work?
When browsing shoes, dresses, shirts, whatever, select from the dropdown menu, if there is one, that you want the items to be sorted from low to high, meaning the lowest priced items will appear first. Let's say your limit is that you do not want to spend more than $20 this time on a pair of shoes. You can allow yourself to keep browsing until you reach items that are $20. Then, the hard part. You're done. You tell yourself: Ok, I've reached my browsing limit. All shoes on the next page exceed $20. Stop. NOW. And then if you do that, you can move onto looking at other items, of course starting with the lowest prices.

This technique works for me all the time. I can honestly say I've never really kept browsing after my limit. And if I have, it was just for fun.

This resembles a food diet in that if you are counting calories, or points on Weight Watchers, you stop at a certain point and don't allow yourself to eat anything else for the rest of the day once you've reached your limit. Or you stop after two cookies or six chips. If you can do that, props to you.

So, per The Shopping Diet, set your limit BEFORE you browse online. And when you reach the mark, exit the site if you have to. I guarantee you will be able to find nice things that you actually want, that are in your price range. Give it a try. You may be surprised!