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Author: Carrie Rattle

Carrie 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.

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How Can Advanced Style be a Retreat from Compulsive Buying?

Surrounded at dinner recently by six maverick women, ranging in age from their late 30’s into their 70’s, each dressed in the most creative, non-conformist, ensemble, how could it be that I was writing down the names of thrift stores? Each of these women looked like a million bucks, if not two or three. We… Continue reading How Can Advanced Style be a Retreat from Compulsive Buying?

Are You Making Payments Too Quickly?

Forward​ ​movement,​ ​if​ ​we​ ​want​ ​to​ ​call​ ​it​ ​that,​ ​in​ ​Industry​ ​and​ ​technology​ ​has​ ​made​ ​monetary transactions​ ​faster​ ​than​ ​a​ ​speeding​ ​bullet.​ ​​ ​Today​ ​it’s​ ​common​ ​to​ ​be​ ​able​ ​to​ ​make​ ​and​ ​pay​ ​for​ ​a purchase​ ​simply​ ​by​ ​tapping​ ​your​ ​cell​ ​phone. Efficient​ ​and​ ​convenient?​ ​Yes. Risky​ ​and​ ​problematic?​ ​If​ ​you’re​ ​reading​ ​this​ ​soundbite,​ ​the​… Continue reading Are You Making Payments Too Quickly?

For Smart Cookies, Less Spending and More Saving is a Piece of Cake!

How do you rationalize your overshopping and overspending? Do you talk to friends about this?   Do some of them do the same thing? Stopping overshopping and ending overspending can actually be easier when you’re joining with others that are facing the same challenges.  The “Smart Cookies” are a group of five young women that… Continue reading For Smart Cookies, Less Spending and More Saving is a Piece of Cake!

Are You Using This Prescription Drug? It Might Explain Your Compulsive Shopping

Are you taking Aristada or Abilify? Have you begun to shop compulsively, or has your compulsive shopping gotten more pronounced? Both of these medications, sold under the generic name aripiprazole, have been associated with compulsive shopping and spending, as well as other compulsive behaviors such as binge eating, gambling, and sex. Until now the only… Continue reading Are You Using This Prescription Drug? It Might Explain Your Compulsive Shopping

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Hypnosis Tapes for Compulsive Buying: One More Useful Tool

Few of us still picture hypnosis as it was once featured; pocket watch pendulating, subject getting drowsy, trance induction. While hypnosis has undergone an enormous sea change in the last century, beginning with Freud, it’s therapeutic potential has been evident for over one hundred years. A long-standing arrow in our psychological quiver, the ways we… Continue reading Hypnosis Tapes for Compulsive Buying: One More Useful Tool

The Ethics of Overcoming Shopping Addiction

Overcoming overshopping does not only bring individual relief; it’s great for the whole world. In a recent article titled Everyday Ethical Changes Every Person Can Make for a Better World in 2016,  online news outlet Quartz has listed spending less as one of the top ways to make more ethical choices. Spending less is an ethical change almost all… Continue reading The Ethics of Overcoming Shopping Addiction

2016 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying

BBC Could reinvention solve our shopping addiction? CheatSheet Shopaholic? 3 Ways to Curb Your Shopping Addiction Baylor Media Communications Consumer Behavior Expert Shares Four Savings Goals, Financial Tips for the New Year  Bustle 5 Interesting Studies About Shopping, Because You Might As Well Understand Why You’re Currently Broke 4 Ways To Break Your Shopping Addiction… Continue reading 2016 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying

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