How to Reduce Your Commitments Without Changing Your Lifestyle?

Introduction: The Illusion of Ownership and the Trap of Permanent Commitments

In our world today, we've become surrounded by the idea that happiness and success are linked to how much we own. We buy the latest devices, pile up furniture, and own every tool we might need "someday." But the bitter truth is that every item you own is actually a financial, psychological, and spatial commitment that weighs you down in ways you don't realize until the burden becomes unbearably heavy.

Owning things requires continuous maintenance, storage that costs money and space, insurance against damage, and freezes precious cash liquidity that could have grown and multiplied in real investments that build your wealth in the long term. Every item you buy today will lose its value tomorrow, and you'll find yourself forced to buy a newer replacement after two years, in an endless cycle of continuous spending.

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and in line with Vision 2030 which aims to raise quality of life and promote spending efficiency and sustainable consumption, the concept of "smart luxury" has begun to rise and spread among financially aware generations. The question is no longer "How do I buy this?" but has become "How do I get the benefit with the least possible commitments?"

This shift in mentality isn't just a passing consumer trend, but a conscious response to a new economic reality that requires greater financial intelligence. Smart people today realize that real value isn't in owning things, but in the ability to access them when needed without bearing the burdens of permanent ownership.

In this comprehensive guide, we'll teach you how to achieve reducing financial and practical commitments with real intelligence, and how to enjoy all the pleasures of modern life without owning its heavy burdens. You'll learn how to live a life of complete luxury with a flexible budget and healthy cash liquidity.

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1. What Is the Concept of "Reducing Commitments" in the Modern Economy?

Reducing commitments in its essence doesn't just mean stopping spending money or living with exaggerated austerity, but means converting fixed items that continuously drain money from your pocket into flexible services you only pay for when actually using them.

This concept represents a real revolution in how we think about consumption. In the past, if you wanted to photograph a family trip with professional quality, you had to buy a camera for at least 15,000 riyals, use it two or three times a year, then leave it in the closet collecting dust and losing value. Today, financial intelligence requires renting it for only 300 riyals for two or three days.

This way you got the same "lifestyle" you aspire to exactly (professional high-quality photos preserving your memories), but you reduced your financial commitment by more than 98% and maintained your cash liquidity at the same time. This is the essence of sustainable expense reduction that doesn't negatively affect your quality of life.

The fundamental difference between the old model and the modern model is that in the old model you paid for "ownership," while in the modern model you only pay for "benefit." And benefit is what really matters to you in the end, isn't it?

When you need a medical bed for a temporary recovery period, the required benefit is "comfort and recovery," not "owning the bed forever." When you want deep cleaning for your home carpet before Eid, the required benefit is "perfect cleanliness," not "owning a huge washing machine occupying your storage all year."

2. Why Is Expensive Ownership an Obstacle to Your Financial Development?

When you buy an item whose price decreases over time like electronics, furniture, or technical equipment, you inevitably fall into three dangerous financial traps that hinder your financial development and growth:

First Trap - Freezing Cash Liquidity: The 10,000 riyals neglected in your storage in the form of camping tools or rarely-used sports equipment is "dead cash" that doesn't grow or multiply. This money could have been in an investment account achieving monthly returns for you, or in an emergency fund protecting you from sudden crises, or even in developing your professional skills that increase your future income. But instead, it's locked in items losing their value daily.

Second Trap - Continuous Maintenance Cost: Every item you own becomes a commitment on you. Electronics need software updates and spare parts, power generators need periodic maintenance and oil changes, cameras need lens cleaning and sensor checks. All these are hidden costs you don't calculate when buying, but they accumulate over time and become a real financial burden.

Third Trap - Space and Storage Chaos: Home crowding due to "neglected items" that are rarely used negatively affects your daily quality of life. Psychological studies confirm that physical clutter causes mental clutter, increases stress levels, and reduces productivity. An organized home containing only what you actually need is a more comfortable and peaceful home.

By adopting the sharing economy model and smart renting, you can free yourself from these three constraints at once. Renting gives you the "pure benefit" you need exactly, without bearing any of the risks of depreciation, maintenance headaches, or storage problems.

3. Sectors That Help You Reduce Your Commitments Immediately

Let's be practical and review the vital sectors where you can immediately apply the commitment reduction strategy and see positive financial results within weeks.

a- Events and Occasions Sector

Are you planning a graduation party for your son or daughter? Or a Ramadan gathering for your friends and loved ones? Or a family wedding? Instead of buying tables, chairs, display screens, and sound systems for thousands or even tens of thousands of riyals, you can save money by renting them for just one night or a weekend.

This type of event budget management is exactly what separates the professional organizer who knows the value of money from the amateur who spends without calculation. Equipment that costs 20,000 riyals to buy can be rented for only 1,500 riyals. The huge difference of 18,500 riyals can go to more valuable things: gifts for guests, better food, or even saving it for your children's future.

More importantly, after the party ends you won't find yourself confused: "What do I do with all these tables and chairs?" You won't need additional storage, and won't have to sell them at half price or less. Simply, you return them to the lessor and the matter ends.

b- Electronics and Technology Sector

Technology evolves at an amazing speed, and what's new today becomes old tomorrow. Buying VR glasses for 3,500 riyals or a PlayStation 5 for 2,500 riyals is a long-term commitment to continuous updating. After two years, better devices will appear, and your old device will lose half its value or more.

The smart solution? Rent VR glasses for one weekend for 200 riyals, enjoy the latest games and immersive experiences, then return them. Next time, rent the newer model directly. This way you're living a very advanced "lifestyle" technologically and keeping up with the latest developments, but your financial commitments approach zero.

This same logic applies to professional cameras, powerful laptops, drones, photography equipment, and everything related to rapidly evolving technology.

For companies and enterprises: Does your company's booth at the next exhibition need huge equipment of screens, display systems, and modern furniture? Don't kill the company's liquidity on fixed items used for a few days then neglected. Use Estajer platform to convert your expenses from CapEx (capital expenditure) to flexible OpEx (operational expenditure) that ensures financial agility and ability to grow and expand.

c- Trips and Camping Equipment Sector

The desert and camping season in Saudi Arabia is one of the most beautiful seasons, but it's seasonal by nature. Buying a luxurious tent for 5,000 riyals, a silent power generator for 3,000 riyals, traditional seating for 2,000 riyals, and grilling tools for 1,500 riyals means a total investment exceeding 11,500 riyals in equipment you'll use only two or three months a year.

The rest of the year, this equipment will stay neglected in storage, exposed to heat, humidity, and dust. The tent may rot, the generator needs periodic maintenance even if you don't use it, and the seating loses its colors. When next camping season comes, you may find yourself forced to spend on repair and cleaning.

Renting solves all these dilemmas. You rent complete, clean, and equipped gear on every trip, at a cost not exceeding 10-15% of the purchase value. You save money, save space, and ensure the gear is always in the best condition.

4. Consumption Psychology: How to Enjoy Luxury Without Guilt?

Many people suffer from a psychological phenomenon called "Buyer's Guilt." This feeling of regret and distress that hits you after paying large amounts for luxuries or unnecessary things, especially when you later discover you rarely use them.

Smart renting completely removes this psychological burden. When you choose to reduce commitments through renting, you consciously decide to be a "professional user" not a "random collector of things." You pay small amounts for wonderful experiences, without feeling the weight of long-term financial commitment.

Imagine this wonderful scenario with me: You can ride an electric scooter this week to try a new means of transportation, try a professional cinema camera next week to film your creative project, and go out in a fully equipped royal tent on the weekend to enjoy nature... all this with a monthly budget less than the value of buying the smallest single item among them.

This is real quality of life. Not in owning and piling up things, but in the ability to access anything you need, at any time, without burdening yourself with endless commitments.

Renting gives you the freedom to experiment without fear of loss. Do you want to try a new hobby like drone photography? Rent a drone for a week. If you like the hobby and continue with it, then buying is justified. But if you discover it's not for you, you've only lost a small amount instead of thousands of riyals.

5. Home Budget Management: How to Save 30% of Your Income Through Renting?

To succeed in managing your home budget effectively and save a large percentage of your monthly income, follow a simple and clear rule we call "Usage vs. Ownership":

First Category - Daily Necessities: Phone, bed, basic clothes, refrigerator, washing machine, basic furniture. These are things you use daily or almost daily, and their usage rate exceeds 60-70% of the time. Here buying is logical and justified.

Second Category - Seasonal or Intermittent Items: Desert and camping gear, specialized home maintenance tools, party and occasion equipment, photography equipment, experimental technology, temporary medical devices, seasonal sports equipment. These are used less than 20% of the time. Here renting is the smarter choice.

By disciplinedly applying this simple rule, you'll discover that you achieve expense reduction in an amazing way that may actually reach 25-35% of your total annual expenses. And you save real cash that you can invest in building your financial future or your children's education or traveling and enjoying life, without ever giving up the level of luxury you're used to or dream of.

The numbers are clear: The average family in Saudi Arabia spends about 15,000-20,000 riyals annually buying rarely-used items. By converting 70% of these purchases to renting when needed, you save about 10,000-12,000 riyals annually. This amount is enough to finance a luxurious family trip, open an investment account, or pay tuition fees for an important development course.

Golden opportunity for suppliers and owners: Do you own neglected items in your storage or garage causing you "spatial and financial burden"? Don't let them collect dust and lose their value. Turn them immediately into a passive and continuous income source! Display them on Estajer platform and turn them from a burden to a profit opportunity. Let them spend on themselves and bring you fixed monthly profits without any additional effort from you.

6. Estajer Platform: Your Digital Gateway to Financial Agility

We at Estajer platform didn't just build an ordinary electronic rental marketplace; we built an integrated and advanced digital ecosystem that supports your strategic decision in reducing commitments and achieving financial agility with complete ease and security:

Amazing Diversity: 13 vital sectors literally covering all your daily and seasonal needs. From electronics and games, to trips and camping equipment, through medical devices, occasion tools, photography equipment, formal and traditional clothing, temporary furniture, and even construction and craft tools. Whatever your need, you'll find what meets it on the platform.

Guaranteed Government Security: Complete authentication through the national Nafath system to ensure lessor and lessee identity. Every user on the platform is a real person verified by the government, which completely eliminates fraud risks or dealing with fake identities.

Absolute Financial Protection: The advanced Waffy system that holds your money in a safe escrow account and doesn't deliver it to the lessor until your complete satisfaction with the rented item's condition and your confirmation of receiving it safely. This protects you from any fraud attempts or delivery of damaged items.

Extreme Ease: A smooth and carefully designed user experience that makes renting through the platform easier and faster than traditional buying. Just a few clicks separate you from booking any item you need, with a verified electronic contract, home delivery, and technical support throughout the rental period.

Reliable Rating System: Real ratings from actual users help you choose the best lessors and best quality items. Complete transparency ensures that quality is rewarded and violations are punished.

7. Sustainability and Vision 2030: Your Role as a Conscious Consumer

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is moving confidently toward adopting the sharing economy model as part of its ambitious Vision 2030, to achieve two strategic goals: reducing material and environmental waste, and protecting natural resources for future generations.

When you choose renting instead of buying, you're not only saving your money, but also effectively and tangibly contributing to:

Reducing Electronic and Material Waste: Every device or item rented instead of purchased means reducing demand for new manufacturing. Instead of producing 100 cameras for 100 people each using it twice a year, one high-quality camera can serve dozens of people throughout the year. This reduces waste tremendously.

Maximizing National Resource Utilization: When we use things more efficiently and share them instead of hoarding them, we improve the use of available resources and reduce the need to continuously import new products.

Supporting the Local Economy: Estajer platform enables individual suppliers and small and medium enterprises to turn their neglected items into sustainable income sources, creating jobs and supporting local entrepreneurship.

Reducing Carbon Footprint: Every manufactured product produces carbon emissions. By reducing demand for new products through the sharing economy, we contribute to lowering carbon emissions and protecting the environment.

You as a conscious consumer, every rental decision you make is a vote for a more sustainable future for your children and grandchildren. It's not just a smart financial decision, but also a responsible ethical and environmental decision.

Conclusion: Live Freely... Rent the Benefit

In the end, reducing commitments isn't just a strategy to save money and reduce expenses, but is primarily a real recovery of your precious time, personal space, and psychological peace that's priceless.

Random and unplanned ownership gives you heavy excess weight on your journey toward financial success and personal freedom, while smart renting gives you real wings to access everything you want, whenever you want, and with the high quality you deserve, without burdening yourself with endless financial, spatial, or psychological burdens.

Life is too short to spend it collecting things that lose their value and collect dust. Life is in rich experiences, beautiful memories, and financial freedom that gives you real choices.

Don't be a slave bound by what you own... Be a free master of what you use and enjoy.

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