12-Week Shopping Addiction Telecoaching Group Are You Concerned About Your Shopping and Spending? If the Answer is Yes, We Can Help. Here’s how: The focus of the 12-week Shopping AddictionTelecoaching Group is on providing help for shopping addiction through changing problematic buying behavior. The program employs a wide array of techniques to achieve this goal. You’ll… Continue reading Help For Shopping Addiction Telecoaching Group
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.
Merry Shopping and a Happy New Car?
I’ve heard holiday come-ons before, but these take the cake. Last week, a friend told me that a few years ago, in the midst of the holiday season, she received a circular in the mail with the words “Merry Shopping, and a Happy New Car” bolded, italicized, in big red and green block letters, splayed… Continue reading Merry Shopping and a Happy New Car?
Can Ethical Clothing Help Transform Your Relationship with Shopping?
“I have never been addicted to shopping. And yet I am all too familiar with the overwhelmingly strong pull followed by disgust and self-hatred, with the guilt, with the complete lack of joy in what I consumed.” So begins Emma’s guest post on Recovering Shopaholic, “Can Ethical Clothing Transform Your Relationship with Shopping?” When peoples’ shopping… Continue reading Can Ethical Clothing Help Transform Your Relationship with Shopping?
Hard-Wired for Giving?
Classical economic theory and the Darwinian principle of “survival of the fittest” both suggest that self-centeredness is the way to succeed. Edging out the competition, selfish people take the best mates and the best resources, goes the theory. However, new scientific studies suggest that instead, humans are actually hard-wired to be altruistic. Why? One school of… Continue reading Hard-Wired for Giving?
Conscious 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
Decisional Balance Matrix
Download your matrix here Your Decisional Balance Matrix: Take your time and write what comes to mind now. Whenever you think of additional costs or benefits, add them to this living document. If I Stop Overshopping If I Continue Overshopping Short-Term Benefits (1) (2) Long-Term Benefits… Continue reading Decisional Balance Matrix
Is An Addiction To Shopping Ruining Your Marriage?
Can you relate to this man’s story? He is a stay at home dad with a good part time job. He has three kids and has been married for over 20 years. He’s had an addiction to shopping for just as long. She makes most of the money and he’s racked up a “mountain of debt.”… Continue reading Is An Addiction To Shopping Ruining Your Marriage?
How Many Clothes are Enough?
It’s fairly easy to find out how much is too much when it comes to clothes. Overflowing closets and overstuffed drawers that are impossible to shut are a pretty good clue! But when you’re a recovering shopaholic, downsizing your wardrobe can be the hardest part. For many people, it can seem like having more clothes… Continue reading How Many Clothes are Enough?
Be the One to Stop Shopping Addiction
Can’t help shopping, but need to stop? What is there to do to quit this habit? In the words of a former shopping addict “it all starts with you.” Admit to yourself you have a problem. The piles of unused items in your house are probably already trying to tell you this. Many people justify… Continue reading Be the One to Stop Shopping Addiction
Council Clerk’s Shopping Addiction Lands Her in Jail
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