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Category: Control Shopping

Higher Prices Mean Higher Quality – Or Do They?

We often have sayings, biases, and assumptions that are built and reinforced over time. For example, we often assume that a higher price means higher quality. We also assume that most people are sensible and will figure out a cheap scam so if a product is priced incorrectly, it won’t last long. But is this… Continue reading Higher Prices Mean Higher Quality – Or Do They?

Can Time Away Promote Shopping Self-Awareness?

A vacation and time away with family can be an inadvertent opportunity for self-awareness, self-discovery, and reflection.  Recently, our friend and guest blogger Toni Marie took a long anticipated family vacation.  With humor and heart, she chronicles the triumphs and challenges of being on a family vacation during which strong urges to shop and buy… Continue reading Can Time Away Promote Shopping Self-Awareness?

Unbelievable, but it’s true, Nordstrom and I are Through: Part II

Part II   Lynn, an active, involved stay-at-home mother of four, is a client of mine who initially came to see me five years ago because of a long history of overshopping and overspending, mounting debt, and the stress on her marriage that this had caused.  During the six months we worked together, she made… Continue reading Unbelievable, but it’s true, Nordstrom and I are Through: Part II

Common Fall Shopping Mistakes

And Fall Fashions Calling You? Resources to Help You Resist the Pull! The end of summer can be one of the most challenging times of year for overshoppers. Three compelling sources: end of summer sales, back-to-school deals, and the new fall fashions all come together at the same time to create the “perfect storm” for compulsive buying chaos. A few… Continue reading Common Fall Shopping Mistakes

Afraid of missing out on a purchase? Be savvy to the advertising techniques that get you to spend

Imagine yourself walking into a store, any store: The products are likely displayed in a beautiful array, near the front windows; there are sales people scattered around to help you with anything you need; and there are bright advertisements hanging from the ceilings, pasted on the walls, on stands near the checkout, that scream, “Sale!”… Continue reading Afraid of missing out on a purchase? Be savvy to the advertising techniques that get you to spend

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

Curbing Shopping Tendencies

Stacy Johnson of MoneyTalks had a great phrase for describing over shopping: “When your purchases shift from impulsive to compulsive, you might be a shopping addict.” Psychologists often label it “compulsive buying disorder.” Like other impulse-control issues, such as binge eating or gambling, whatever you decide to call shopaholism, it can easily spiral out of… Continue reading Curbing Shopping Tendencies

Curb Compulsive Spending Habits

Compulsive spending comes from deeper psychological issues combined with a lack of good money management. Even the most materialistic people can avoid racking up the credit card debt with good money management. Shopaholics use spending as a way to soothe their anxieties and problems instead of facing them directly. Credit cards make such retail therapy… Continue reading Curb Compulsive Spending Habits