As a lover of shopping, the store entrance is the direct way to paradise for you. It’s the only place other place where you feel home.
The process of purchasing something launches you in real euphoria, like you’re the most self-sufficient person ever!
Sounds good? Then why should you resist this “happiness?” Let me show you the evidence–this easy-coming happiness fades away even more easily when you face the bills when you’re sober.
Shopping is fun, that stands to reason. But it’s fun till the point where your natural fondness of shopping grows into addiction and you find out that you’re a shopaholic.
Mostly it goes like this–you feel stressed and to do away with this feeling you turn to buying something. Wow, cool, it works! But this heavenly feeling of relief lasts right up to the moment you leave the store. Immediately after, there’s a disturbing feeling of regret or depression. So the only thing you need to feel better making a new purchase.
It may seem that in contrast to other types of addiction like alcoholism, drug or food addiction, shopaholism is a trifle. It’s not though. The consequences of shopaholism may be seriously destructive.
Just picture yourself going through loans and debts up to a crisis scale, stress and tense relations with the people surrounding you, and the whole beauty of shopping will fade away.
Well, if you feel like something in this description relates to you in some way or you have some other signs of shopaholism, these tips may be helpful for you:
- Forget about credit cards. Do your shopping in cash, so that you won’t be able to spend more money than you have.
- List what you need before shopping. Just take a piece of paper and write down the things you need to purchase. With limited cash and a shopping list you’ll have no other option but to buy only what’s necessary.
- Try to go shopping with someone close to you. If this person knows about your problem, he or she will help you stop in time.
- Decide on a weekly or monthly budget and stick to it. Work it out in accordance with your needs and your income.
- Unsubscribe from all the announcements and catalogs of all stores you visit. Get rid of this temptation as well.
- If it won’t work, try to attend a shopaholics anonymous group.
We are all humans and we are all exposed to addictions. This is one side of the coin. On the flip side, we’re all humans, and we are all granted with strength of the will to cope with these addictions.
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