Shopping Addiction Essay

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CHAPTER II
1. Literature Review 1.1 Introduction
According to an online article, Shopping Addictions: When Spending Hurts “A shopping addiction can cause serious problems. First of all, it is difficult for addicts. Even though shopaholics enjoy the excitement, they often feel depressed or guilty after a shopping trip. Spending more money they have, many shopaholics have financial problems. As they spend, the may lie to their families about their spending habits”.
Deborah Gray gives additional suggestions of how to get a handle on someone’s shopping behaviours in her post, ‘Controlling Impulse Spending’. These suggestions include, ‘using a debit card or cash instead of your credit cards, planning your shopping trips ahead of time by creating …show more content…

You can even spend money which were supposed to be used somewhere else. One common character in shopping addict is that they purchase products impulsively and like making payments online, through credit cards. Based on this statement, shopping addict is a serious problem and can be a severe addiction. It is characterized by the need to purchase items even when they do not need the items. Shopaholics will follow their desire without making a plan thus shopping unnecessarily.

However, researcher also found a book written about the story of the author herself having an experience with financial problem due to shopping addiction. According from the sources from the book written by Karen O’Connor “Addicted to shopping and other Issues Women have with Money’’. Some interesting points in the book include the common traits among most addictions and compulsions, the type of women over spenders, shopaholics, debt enablers and credit card abusers. The book explains to women why they think, behave and spend as they do, and then she explains what they can do to change such negative

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