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
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.
Compulsive Shopping: No Sale
It can be easy to think that a shopping addiction is just a simple case of buying things you don’t need and excessive spending, but in fact this addiction goes much deeper than that. Compulsive shoppers, shopping addicts, or shopaholics make up 5.8 percent of the American population, with the majority being women. While it… Continue reading Compulsive Shopping: No Sale
Stress Busters
So many of us are bombarded by countless stressors; it can be daunting to find a peaceful moment between the internal noise in our head and the external noise at home, at work, or on the street . To give yourself a dose of the calming chemicals that keep our thoughts and feelings at ease,… Continue reading Stress Busters
The Truth About Shopping Addiction
A shopping addiction is something that can come off as harmless, especially in its early stages, but may start to rapidly spiral out of control. People who once thought of shopping as a relaxing hobby become unable to let a day pass without an exciting new purchase. Buying each new thing creates a high like… Continue reading The Truth About Shopping Addiction
Minimalism for the Modern Consumer
It’s really no great secret that we live in a society largely fueled by and revolving around consumerism. Every day we are told that the secret to happiness lies in the newest gadgets, the nicest housewares, and even the freshest air fresheners. But there is a new trend emerging in the vein of minimalism, it… Continue reading Minimalism for the Modern Consumer
How your Wallet is Stressing You Out
By the time we’re financially independent, we’ve had or witnessed numerous testimonies to the stress-inducing nature of money. Memories of parents arguing over money or a lost job often give us deep, even subconscious, associations that cause us to act irrationally when it comes to money. Early life experiences form a negative thought process called… Continue reading How your Wallet is Stressing You Out
Women Who Hide their Shopping Addiction from their Husbands
Shopping addiction is not a problem isolated to this side of the Atlantic. Buckinghamshire psychologist Nadine Field treats an average of six women a week who have been spending behind their partners’ backs. Thirty-three-year-old Elenor Smith has been spending money she and her husband don’t have for the past three years. She’s been piling up… Continue reading Women Who Hide their Shopping Addiction from their Husbands
It Happened to Me: Shopping Addiction
“I even considered becoming an escort to make extra money to fund my addiction.” These are the words of male fashion blogger and shopaholic Jared Lowe. At least three or four times a week, Lowe found himself lugging huge shopping bags down the street, filled with designer clothing and shoes: Items he already owned in… Continue reading It Happened to Me: Shopping Addiction
Defining Moments and Powerful Choices
By: Jill Chivers of Shop Less, Live More We all have moments in our lives when a choice presented itself. You could choose Door A and all it brings. You could choose Door B and face those consequences. Some of us were lucky enough to recognize that moment, to see the fork in the road where… Continue reading Defining Moments and Powerful Choices
More Than One-in-Ten U.S. Adults Consider Themselves to be Shopaholics, Reveals New CouponCabin.com Survey
The results from a CouponCabin.com survey of over 2000 adults, aged 18 and over, suggest that 11 percent of U.S. adults consider themselves to be “shopaholics,” (i.e. addicted to shopping and never missing an opportunity to buy something). Additionally, 15% of U.S. adults report that their shopping habits have put them in debt, and 63% of U.S.… Continue reading More Than One-in-Ten U.S. Adults Consider Themselves to be Shopaholics, Reveals New CouponCabin.com Survey