compulsive buying
Can't stop shopping
Compulsive buying is the inability to resist purchasing things, often regardless of need or financial consequences.
The behavior provides temporary emotional relief but typically leads to guilt, debt, and accumulation of unused items.
Unlike ordinary shopping, compulsive buying feels driven and uncontrollable: Her compulsive buying filled closets with unworn clothes.
Also called compulsive shopping or oniomania.
- shoppingAcquiring goods at retailers
- online shoppingInternet-based retail activity
- addictionCompulsive substance reliance
- splurgeSpend freely, impulsively
- treat yourselfAllow personal indulgence
debt · credit card · credit limit · retail therapy · emotional spending · spending · binge · shopping spree · urge · maxed out · bags · mall · add to cart · checkout · flash sale · regret · hoarder · closet
- spending habitsspending habits, frugality, overspending, reckless spending, frugal living
- compulsionsOCD, obsession, handwashing, hand washing, checking
- hoardinghoarding, clutter, accumulating, collecting, stockpiling
- money disordersshopping addiction, gambling addiction, money hoarding, affluenza
- spendingspending, shopping, purchases, expenses, bills
- wastefulnesswaste, squandering, extravagance, profligacy, dissipation
compulsive buyingfrugality
Economical resource management
minimalism · thrift · saving · austerity · anti-consumerism
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