Thursday, 30 April 2026

Stop and Be Cautious

Recurring Caution and Mindfulness from Us Required When: We are regularly lured to buy frivolous things all hyped by packaging, seemingly cheap deals and constant barraging. Getting into warranties as we are pyschologically seduced to pay for a promise that we almost certainly never use. Setting up auto debits for subscriptions, memberships and other payments. We instinctively know things, flavours and offers are too good to be true - and yet go ahead to acquire or eat/drink them. As we pay upfront for depreciable products even when we know we hardly use them. We are informed in tersely curt, impersonal and infornal language or wording in notifications that has an obvious feel of not telling us, as consumers, everything we are supposed and rightfully to know. When we are overwhelmed with what is included with our payment - but a dead silence received when we ask what is excluded. We do not know our rights when we encounter a situation not expected but can still happen. When we have doubts that what and who are dealing with are real or sincere. When reviews on social media can get so blurry or tricky on what is honest, what is paid advertising and what is influencing. #yongkevthoughts

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