How to stop impulse shopping and tips for emotional spending

Omg: "Shopping to feel like being a part of a community" hit me like a bloody train 😮 100 %

Reverse the Anchor Price Problem by asking yourself how much you would be willing to pay, before checking the price. 75% of the time, what I would happily pay and what they want from me will make me straight up laugh; which makes it sooo much easier to walk away from the hunt! Even if I do love the piece, I will happily keep looking for something a little better and a little more my price 8)

I love this video. I’m a compulsive shopper and one of the worst parts about it for me (second to the credit card debt I keep getting into…) is not being able to trust myself. I’ll be so motivated and then I slip and just spend money and I don’t know how to stop. If I don’t buy the item I just sit and obsess over it and I’m so easily influenced

I think the reasons why we don’t talk enough about shopping addiction are 1) it’s a “women’s issue” and 2) our society runs on capitalism. I see gambling addiction billboards up and down I95 because it’s a “man’s addiction;” if more men had genuine shopping addictions, it would’ve had its own ICD10 code by now (not "impulse control disorder, not otherwise classified") like gambling does. Also, if we stopped shopping in a society built on shopping, what would happen to the nation’s economy? It’s in the nation’s best interest to keep us shopping. In the words of the late American poet Whitney Houston, “It’s not right, but it’s okay.” Thanks for the conversation!

I’m normally not a compulsive shopper ,but these last couple of months have been running me dry. The “sales” tactics have really been effecting me . Thanks for this conversation

This was a great conversation; Paige is very knowledgeable and I love how she broke down the internal struggles and how to process them for the best outcome. "How you feel on the journey is how you're going to feel when you arrive." Such a worrdd!! I am that person that beats herself down to get a task done and I absolutely agree with her; criticizing and hating ourselves on the journey does not help us at all in the long run.

Out of the many videos on this subject in YouTube, this is the most comprehensive one I’ve come across. Thank you! Many great points discussed here. 😊

I absolutely love this speaker..she is on point from every angle

I loved the part about sales, I often struggle with buying things I don’t really need because I feel I’m getting a bargain by buying things on sale. I’m now trying to use sales more strategically so I can buy things I actually need when they’re discounted. I think a big part is that in the past sales happened only maybe 3 times a year, whereas now as you say there’s a sale of some kind all the time, which tricks us into buying more stuff. The cheap/on sale things end up being worse for our wallets cause often times they’re not even good quality so we don’t make as much use of them, and we end up buying replacements soon. Also, if we put together all the cheap stuff we’ve bought it ends up being more expensive than buying one expensive good quality item that we’ll make use of.

I was literally just thinking about this topic and right as I refreshed my YouTube subscriptions this came up. Thanks for such great content and all the hard work you do to help everyone ❤️- Kira

Great video!💙 I sooo agree with Paige about how something doesn't need to become an issue or an addiction before you want to adjust something- it's SO TRUE! I'm someone who is overall great about financing and budgeting but also has a slight tendency to (still within my tight budget but still...) to shop to manage stress,/impulse shop, etc. It's something I've been working on for a while because I just want to be more mindful of it in general and especailly considering my life goals (down payment in a few years and new use car in a few years)! Thanks again for the video! 💙

My parents were both Boomer babies of large families, and both came to the marriage being spoiled. Then they spoiled each other. Mom would say their budgeting ethos was "Pay the bills and spend what's left." So I didn't have a good role model there. Then, my adult finances were quite a bit more limited than my parents' were. It's taking us four decades of marriage to get a handle on our finances and it's ROUGH!

This Quote right here “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. - James Clear.

I’m glad I watched this 🙏🏻

I love the idea of waiting at least 72 hours to buy something. I used to follow the 24 hour rule which wasn't helpful

Great video!!

Very informative conversation ❤

My husband thinks all his nike shoes, sports cards, and hot-wheels cars are investments. 😅

The pause between seing, wanting and purchasing won‘t do, unfortunately. If it‘s a real addiction it won‘t do. I‘ve been on a no buy year since may 2023 now, and I still shop - without buying. I spend lots of time searching for things, adding it to my list and then - thinking about them (and every day new ones) for weeks even. It‘s taking up much energy, time and thoughts still. The only thing that will help, would be faceing the biggest fear/problem (whatever that might be for somebody) and overcome/solve it. Because shopping and window shopping are only substitutes, they are distractions. It‘s a system you build up not to think about that one difficult thing, that makes you anxious.

I hope to overcome my spending addiction and then win the lottery.