Do we know what we truly want? Can those things be purchased? Jill Chivers, author of “My Year Without Clothes Shopping,” suggests that overshopping can be a way of compensating for deeper needs such as meaningful work, connections with others, life experiences that make us happy, and being seen and known for who we really… Continue reading Protect Me From What I Want
Category: Retail Psychology
How to Guard Yourself From Flash Sales
Avoid overspending with these tips for your inner shopaholic… For those of you that are vulnerable to flash sales, today’s U.S. News and World Report has an article that I was interviewed for with practical tips to reduce your risk of overshopping when these highly tempting triggers are at your fingertips. To access the article,… Continue reading How to Guard Yourself From Flash Sales
How Simplicity Appeals to the Heart
Joshua Becker defines minimalism as “the intentional promotion of the things I most value and the removal of everything that distracts me from it.” In his writing and speaking, he has come to believe that simplicity leads to joy and so appeals to our hearts. Our hearts know the truth, Becker suggests; that possessions don’t… Continue reading How Simplicity Appeals to the Heart
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
Did Dr. B Have a Relapse?
I returned today from a 13-day trip, with my husband and three other couples, to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. It’s an old colonial town northwest of Mexico City that’s attracted thousands of American, Canadian, and European expats for quite some time now. The climate is superb. Wonderful sounds, both instrumental and natural, fill the… Continue reading Did Dr. B Have a Relapse?
Stop Shopping!
Can’t stop shopping insanity? Try shopping your own closet! Every minute of every day, inside and outside of every closet, there’s a woman who thinks she’s got nothing to wear. Can you relate? Every day, closet doors open on rooms full of nostalgia and dream sizes, garments we convince ourselves we’ll one day wear again.… Continue reading Stop Shopping!
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
Danshari: Ditching Materialism for the Simple Life
Michael Hoffman, in an interesting new article in The Japan Times Online, describes danshari, a lifestyle idea that complements three other stuff-minimal concepts, voluntary simplicity, wabi sabi, and true wealth. Voluntary simplicity, you may recall, has origins in the 19th century and calls into question the values of material wealth and status; it focuses instead… Continue reading Danshari: Ditching Materialism for the Simple Life
What’s Wrong with Haul Videos?
Last April, I wrote: “I’m scratching my head about—and steeling myself for the potential fallout from—a new internet phenomenon, the “Haul Video,” examples of which are popping up on YouTube like mushrooms after a rain.” There are now over a quarter of a million of them! What’s a Haul Video? For the better part of… Continue reading What’s Wrong with Haul Videos?
Shoptimism
Lee Eisenberg’s Shoptimism is a journey into the psychology of shopping from two sides of the cash register, the buy side and the sell side. It could easily be the upbeat textbook for Retail 101, exploring in its first half the buy side—why we consumers shop—and in its second half the sell side, how different… Continue reading Shoptimism