On Shopaholicism
October 31st 2006 08:10
feel the urge to become one.
Retail therapy is another version of the morning-after pill. You think it's working but it won't. Of course, almost 70% of women (according to my own survey with my girl friends), know that grabbing Jimmy Choo's right after breakup won't heal any scar but would actually result into more damage especially to our credit card limits. But we women still do it.
Shopping til we drop is our favorite bad habit. It just makes us US! AND shopping addiction does exist thanks to Psychology Today.
But how should anyone try to abate compulsive shopping from tearing into our credit reports?
Here are two do's and don'ts to avoid breaking in into the bank, er breaking the bank with your shopaholicism:
Shop when you're full.
Don't shop when you're full.. of frustration, anger or just about any bad vibes.
Too common good-shopper's tips you might say. But when did you actually follow them?
One way that I managed to make it hard for me to do compulsive shopping was when I folded (literally) my credit card. It made me feel bad for paying an annual credit card fee without really being able to use it but it made me learn how to get by without using plastic money for quite some time.
How about you? What keeps you from getting overboard with your shopping? Or are you even trying to? If you are Paris Hilton or Google no need to explain, really.
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