compulsive spending
Uncontrollable purchasing urges
Compulsive spending is the inability to control purchasing behavior despite negative consequences—mounting debt, damaged relationships, or emotional distress.
The spending often serves as emotional regulation rather than acquisition of needed goods: She recognized her compulsive spending as a response to stress.
Also called shopping addiction or oniomania in clinical contexts.
- shoppingAcquiring goods at retailers
- debtMoney owed another
- credit cardBorrowed-funds payment tool
- credit card debtMoney owed on plastic
- retail therapyShopping to improve mood
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- spending habitsfrugality, overspending, frugal living, thriftiness, thrift
- addictionsaddiction, drug addiction, alcoholism, nicotine addiction, gambling
- compulsionsOCD, obsession, handwashing, hand washing, checking
- money disordersshopping addiction, gambling addiction, money hoarding, affluenza
- wastefulnesswaste, squandering, extravagance, profligacy, dissipation
- money mindsetmoney worship, financial stress, abundance mindset, scarcity mindset, poverty mindset
compulsive spendingfrugality
Economical resource management
financial discipline · budgeting · fiscal restraint · financial prudence · thriftiness
compulsive spendingminimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
anti-consumerism · simple living · intentional living · asceticism · decluttering
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