How to Prevent Impulse Buying? Impulse buying can be tough because it can keep us from a lot of our goals. We may have the best intentions to put money back to help pay for a bigger apartment or for some of those moves that we want to do, but then we go for some of those smaller purchases that can add up big by the end of the month. Finding out what causes us to impulse buy and then making a plan to avoid it is going to be...