Category: Shopping

Keys To Making The Holiday Overshopping Stop Carrie RattleCarrie 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. Read More

Click this link to hear April Benson speak about cutting down on online shopping. Suggestions To Cut Down On Online Shopping Carrie RattleCarrie 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… Continue reading Suggestions To Cut Down On Online Shopping

“I have never been addicted to shopping. And yet I am all too familiar with the overwhelmingly strong pull followed by disgust and self-hatred, with the guilt, with the complete lack of joy in what I consumed.” So begins Emma’s guest post on Recovering Shopaholic, “Can Ethical Clothing Transform Your Relationship with Shopping?”  When peoples’ shopping… Continue reading Can Ethical Clothing Help Transform Your Relationship with Shopping?

Are your emotions in the driver’s seat when you go shopping, only to leave your brain in charge later with those feelings of guilt or regret? Instead of being a shopaholic, how can we be more conscious shoppers? Conscious shopping makes you feel good about each stage of shopping, before, during, and after, without having… Continue reading Conscious Shopping

Some shopaholics get a rush from making a big purchase. Others are addicted to getting a good deal, even if it’s on something they don’t really need. Which category do you fall in? A poll shows that an overwhelming amount of Indian consumers prefer to spend time looking for a deal: only 21% of Indian consumers… Continue reading How do you Shopaholic?

Is there a placebo for shopping? Taking a sugar pill doesn’t seem likely to help with online shopping addiction, but the Placebo Method is a way of overcoming shopaholism with small steps that you can start implementing right away. The aim is to avoid the stress, guilt, and other negative feelings that come with addiction.… Continue reading Placebo your Way out of Shopping Addiction?

Materialists, people who attach an excessive amount of importance to physical things, tend to experience more stress from traumatic events. This combined with a generally low self esteem, materialistic people tend to be compulsive shoppers. This conclusion comes out of a study done on two different Israeli towns, one that was under a terrorist attack… Continue reading When the Going gets Tough, the Materialistic go Shopping

Everyone has their own pathway to healing, and getting help from all kinds of sources can aid you in finding your own way. If you’re trying to stop over shopping, keep in mind that just because something worked for a friend or a blogger you like, it’s not guaranteed to help you. But it may… Continue reading Finding a Way to Deal with Shopping Addiction

Many married women who suffer from shopping addiction have worked out strategies of hiding their purchases from their husbands. While you might be able to justify a thousand dollar handbag to yourself as an “investment,” chances are hubby won’t see it that way. Do you find yourself doing things like taking tags off new items… Continue reading Does Your Husband Know about Your Shopping Addiction?

Maybe if shopping were limited to having to get to a store to make your purchases, it would be easier to quell an addiction. Unfortunately, the wide world of the internet makes it easy to purchase anything and everything right from the comfort of your own home, any time of day or night. If your… Continue reading Beating an Online Shopping Addiction