Something awful happened last week. Our couch died. As in, the main bottom support metal piece completely snapped in half. My husband and I tried everything to fix it- from welding to placing another metal bar across as support. Nothing worked and I’m genuinely sad because we’ve only had the couch for three years and I really liked it.

Shopping for a new couch has been a literal nightmare because while our living room is a wide open space, our doorways and landing areas are teeny tiny. So, we're trying to decide if we should go with a 70-inch sofa, which is more like a love seat, or if we should spend double what we’re planning to custom make a sofa designed to get into tight door and hallways- something sturdy that we can disassemble if we ever move.

I’m usually good at pulling the trigger when it comes to purchases, but on Friday after work, I did just that and it backfired. I stopped by a local furniture store and bought a beautiful couch and enlisted the help of friends to get it into our house Saturday. After almost two hours of trying, we had to return the couch to the store and this is why I’m totally overthinking where we go from here.

If you need to make a shopping decision, don’t do what I did and make it right after you get out of work. I wish that I’d seen this last week- a new study found we make the worst buying decisions right when we get out of work.

Being fatigued mentally means we tend to do what I did- pull the trigger on a purchase without really thinking it all the way through. When we’re tired, the part of our brain that controls our good decision-making area shuts down and makes us impulse buy.

So, the next time you think you’re going to just swing by the furniture store after work, stop! Go another day when you’re not mentally drained.

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