Category: Compulsive Buying

Recently a colleague told me about the Spendster.org website and since she found it interesting, I wanted to check it out.  With so many websites on the Internet, it is easy to get lost in the choices and the fancy html designs and I admit that I was a bit skeptical about its utility before… Continue reading Spendster Site Scouted

Unsolicited and unwanted credit card offers, catalogs, and magazines all have the potential to derail recovering overshoppers. These three websites will help you to opt-out of lists supplied by consumer credit reporting companies, remove your name from junk mail providers, and enable you to choose whether or not you want to receive mail from companies making… Continue reading Slay the Junk Mail Monster! Three Websites That’ll Help

Four recent reports from three continents—Europe, Africa, and Asia—point to the widening net of shopping addiction. Coupled with my recent post, “Compulsive Buying: A Passage to India?” there’s more and more evidence that it poses a serious and worsening global problem. In a piece in the Austria Times, alarmingly titled “Every fourth Austrian threatened by… Continue reading The Web of Overconsumption Tangles Farther

As a reforming bookaholic and bargain shopper, I recently borrowed—borrowed, please note—a fascinating audiobook from the library, Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, by Ellen Ruppell Shell. It’s all about consumerism and it focuses particularly on discount stores—which happen to be the site of many of my purchases that I later regret. The book… Continue reading Response to Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture