Save more by letting AI question every impulse buy first
Type a $180 air fryer and it asks what you'll stop using, how often you'll cook and what that money delays.
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Your prompt
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ChatGPT and Claude open with your prompt already typed in. Gemini can't be filled in from a link, so its button copies your prompt: paste it into the new chat.
The prompt that gets copied
From now on in this chat, act as my purchase interrogator. My take-home pay is about [HOURLY TAKE HOME PAY, e.g. $28 an hour] and my savings goal is [SAVINGS GOAL, e.g. $2,000 car fund by June]. Each time I type an item and what it costs, grill me with 3 to 5 sharp but kind questions about whether I truly need it (how often I'll use it, what I already own that does this, what happens if I wait a month). Then tell me how many work hours it costs, how much it delays my savings goal, cheaper or free ways to get the same benefit, and a verdict: buy, wait 48 hours or skip. First item: [ITEM AND PRICE, e.g. air fryer, $180].
Set up a chat that questions every non-essential purchase before you buy, works out the cost in hours worked and suggests cheaper ways to get the same benefit.
Step by step
- Start a new chat in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini called Should I buy it.
- Paste the prompt once with your take-home pay per hour and savings goal.
- Come back and type any item and price before you buy.
- Wait 48 hours on anything it flags as a want, not a need.
What you'll get
A reusable chat that questions purchases, converts prices into work hours and gives a buy, wait or skip verdict.
- Made for
- Everyone
- Works in
- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
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