Category: Shopping

How to Resist the Perfect Storm of August Overshopping Triggers The end of summer can be one of the most challenging times of the 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… Continue reading How to Resist the Perfect Storm of August Overshopping Triggers

We’ve been fortunate that Kathleen Gemmell, an eclectic  author and former compulsive buyer offered us a guest post about her own recovery journey which began four years ago, when her son, who could no longer sit by and watch his mother buy herself into oblivion, arranged for an “intervention.”  Kathleen Gemmell loves playing with written… Continue reading On Compulsive Buying: And Then There are the Holidays

Touched, tickled, and terribly impressed, I left last Wednesday’s performance of Cheryl Stern’s Shoes and Baggage feeling buoyed and hopeful that compulsive buying may yet really come out of the closet, and this time for good! As this funny, poignant, and thoughtful one-woman musical odyssey opens, the audience is bombarded with a plethora of advertising… Continue reading These Shoes and Baggage Fit Most Shopaholics

When it comes to overspending, clothes are the downfall for many. We see an ensemble in a store window that we think we don’t already have in our closets, or justify our spending sprees because what we purchased was on sale or bought second-hand. I’m Veronica Grace Taleon, Program Manager at Stopping Overshopping, and I… Continue reading Clothes shopping your downfall? Time to change the way you approach personal style!

August is a time of huge seasonal pressure, when back-to-school deals, end-of-season sales and the fall fashion push all come together to create the perfect storm for overshopping. “Great deals” at the end of the season make it easy to think that stocking up for next summer makes a lot of sense, especially because the… Continue reading How to Avoid the “Perfect Storm” of August 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

We’ve been sharing news of women who’ve gone a year with buying new clothes for quite a while now, including Judith Levine, Alexis Hall and Jill Chivers.  Now, Sarah Lazarovic, a 35 year old Canadian woman has written and illustrated a charming book titled A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy, about her particular brand of… Continue reading A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy

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

At Stopping Overshopping, LLC, we’re very interested in hearing recovery stories and reading about them. There is no one-size-fits-all method for taking control of your shopping and  spending. In fact, recovery stories come in all shapes and sizes and recovery can begin anytime, anyplace! We recently discovered three inspirational recovery stories—one overshopper is a writer… Continue reading Shopaholic Recovery Stories

“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?