Tempted to overspend while you wait for a flight? Financial Highway offers some great alternatives. Suggestions include asking about a late check out option at your hotel, purchasing a spa pass if your hotel offers it for a workout or a swim, taking advantage of happy hour snacks and beverages at greatly reduced prices, joining… Continue reading Frugal and Productive Ways to Kill Time Before a Flight
Category: Money Behaviors
New York Area: Shop Your Closet – New Video
Eve Cantor of Shop Your Closet has a great new video out. If you are in the New York area and need some support around curbing your clothes shopping, then watch this video! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rtucRnipg[/youtube] Carrie RattleCarrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com, a website for women focused on mind and money behaviors.… Continue reading New York Area: Shop Your Closet – New Video
Let’s Not Be Too Hasty: Part 2
Decision Fatigue: Tales and Tips on How to Avoid It In the first part of this blog post, we looked at the compelling evidence behind decision fatigue, that previously unrecognized effect that renders us less and less capable of sensible decisions as we make more and more of them. Self control, we noted, turns out… Continue reading Let’s Not Be Too Hasty: Part 2
Let’s Not Be Too Hasty
Decision Fatigue: The more decisions we make, the less sound they are In a fascinating article in The New York Times (Aug 17, 2011), John Tierney examines the solid experimental work behind the emerging concept of “decision fatigue,” a powerful, demonstrable, and previously unrecognized effect that renders us less and less capable of sensible decisions… Continue reading Let’s Not Be Too Hasty
Shop ‘til You Drop: The Crisis of Consumerism
The Media Education Foundation’s film Shop ‘Til You Drop: The Crisis of Consumerism is a refreshingly contemporary and interdisciplinary peek into the machinery of American consumerism and advertising. Though it sees no end in sight to our appetite for overconsumption, it documents an end to the capacity of our planet, with its limited resources, to… Continue reading Shop ‘til You Drop: The Crisis of Consumerism
Spendster Site Scouted
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
Crazy About Money: How Emotions Confuse Our Money Choices And What To Do About It
Dr. Maggie Baker’s new book, Crazy About Money: How Emotions Confuse Our Money Choices And What To Do About It, offers a comprehensive look at our complex and variable relationship with money throughout the course of our lives. Although we tend to view money as an autonomous component of our daily life, Dr. Baker stresses… Continue reading Crazy About Money: How Emotions Confuse Our Money Choices And What To Do About It
Mint: The Flavor of Financial Clarity
Overshoppers often limp along in a thick financial fog. They may have little grasp of where their money goes, how much they owe, or what to do about any of it. And every financial guru who would help them begins with roughly the same advice: start with clarity. Mint.com is a free, internet-based program for… Continue reading Mint: The Flavor of Financial Clarity
Eat, Shop, and Be Merry?
Early on in my study of consumer behavior, I attended a national conference on eating disorders. Catherine Steiner-Adair, one of the keynote speakers, asked the audience what we thought were the two major activities traditionally pursued by women to deal with life’s ups and downs. The silence was palpable. She then answered her own question:… Continue reading Eat, Shop, and Be Merry?
The Web of Overconsumption Tangles Farther
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