An A U.K. council clerk has been jailed for forging checks worth nearly $200,000 to feed her shopping addiction. Her scheme, getting legitimate checks signed by the council, then heating them up to wipe off the payee’s name, which she’d written in a special ink, and substitute in her own, was pretty clever. She managed… Continue reading Council Clerk’s Shopping Addiction Lands Her in Jail
Category: Compulsive Shopping
Are You a Shopaholic?
A shopping addiction can really sneak up on you. Many shopping addicts do not even care about what they buy as much as the feeling they get when they buy. If you suspect you may be a compulsive spender, step back and take a look at your habits. Do you spend money when you feel… Continue reading Are You a Shopaholic?
Inside the Mind of the Compulsive Shopper
If there is a compulsive shopper in your life, it can be difficult to understand what is going on in their mind, especially if you think it is easy for them to just quit spending so much money. But compulsive shopping is so much more than that. Compulsive shoppers use spending to cope with a… Continue reading Inside the Mind of the Compulsive Shopper
Men Can Be Shopaholics Too
David Raudenbush writes about his experience as a shopaholic and his recovery. Experiencing shopping as pleasurable lasts for a while, Raudenbush says, but then the guilt sets in. As he examined his finances and realized how much money he should have had available, he realized that shopping had become a hobby and a way to… Continue reading Men Can Be Shopaholics Too
Recommended Reading: In the Red: The Diary of a Recovering Shopaholic, by Alexis Hall
Recently, a number of overconsumers have decided to make radical changes in the course of a year and then write about their experiences. Mary Carlomagno did it in Give it Up: My Year of Learning to Live Better with Less, which we reviewed in Vol. 1, Number 2, March, 2006. She chronicled giving up one… Continue reading Recommended Reading: In the Red: The Diary of a Recovering Shopaholic, by Alexis Hall