Category: Shopping

Keys To Making The Holiday Overshopping Stop Carrie RattleCarrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com, a website for women focused on mind and money behaviors. She has worked in the financial services industry for 20+ years and hopes to inspire women to better prepare themselves for financial independence. Read More

Click this link to hear April Benson speak about cutting down on online shopping. Suggestions To Cut Down On Online Shopping Carrie RattleCarrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com, a website for women focused on mind and money behaviors. She has worked in the financial services industry for 20+ years and hopes to inspire women to better… Continue reading Suggestions To Cut Down On Online Shopping

Are your emotions in the driver’s seat when you go shopping, only to leave your brain in charge later with those feelings of guilt or regret? Instead of being a shopaholic, how can we be more conscious shoppers? Conscious shopping makes you feel good about each stage of shopping, before, during, and after, without having… Continue reading Conscious Shopping

Some shopaholics get a rush from making a big purchase. Others are addicted to getting a good deal, even if it’s on something they don’t really need. Which category do you fall in? A poll shows that an overwhelming amount of Indian consumers prefer to spend time looking for a deal: only 21% of Indian consumers… Continue reading How do you Shopaholic?

Is there a placebo for shopping? Taking a sugar pill doesn’t seem likely to help with online shopping addiction, but the Placebo Method is a way of overcoming shopaholism with small steps that you can start implementing right away. The aim is to avoid the stress, guilt, and other negative feelings that come with addiction.… Continue reading Placebo your Way out of Shopping Addiction?

Materialists, people who attach an excessive amount of importance to physical things, tend to experience more stress from traumatic events. This combined with a generally low self esteem, materialistic people tend to be compulsive shoppers. This conclusion comes out of a study done on two different Israeli towns, one that was under a terrorist attack… Continue reading When the Going gets Tough, the Materialistic go Shopping

Everyone has their own pathway to healing, and getting help from all kinds of sources can aid you in finding your own way. If you’re trying to stop over shopping, keep in mind that just because something worked for a friend or a blogger you like, it’s not guaranteed to help you. But it may… Continue reading Finding a Way to Deal with Shopping Addiction

Maybe if shopping were limited to having to get to a store to make your purchases, it would be easier to quell an addiction. Unfortunately, the wide world of the internet makes it easy to purchase anything and everything right from the comfort of your own home, any time of day or night. If your… Continue reading Beating an Online Shopping Addiction

A shopping addiction can start out innocently enough, maybe even starting out as spending time with friends or family, as a social and bonding experience. Over time, it might turn into having a little shopping date after a tough break up or a successful work project, starting to tie emotions into the satisfaction of buying.… Continue reading Don’t Let Shopping Addiction Sneak Up on You

It’s easy to see shopping addiction as a response to a traumatic experience, like divorce or death of a family member. But it can also be a fantasy of escape from the “daily grind” as Lana, a 25-year-old receptionist who spends her whole salary on shopping, puts it. By posting pictures of herself with her… Continue reading Retail Remedy or Addiction?