Say the price out loud before you buy. Secrets spend freely; spoken costs slow your hand and steady your aim.

The thought behind it

It hands you something to actually do: small enough to start today, dull enough to still be running in a year. It sits in Money Mind because it treats spending as a symptom, and symptoms are worth reading before they are treated. “8” is doing the work: it is where the line stops describing you and starts asking something.