retail therapy
Buying for comfort
Retail therapy is shopping as a way to lift one's mood or cope with stress.
The phrase treats buying things as a form of self-care or emotional medicine: I had a rough week, so I indulged in a little retail therapy.
The term is usually lighthearted, acknowledging that the "therapy" is more about temporary pleasure than genuine healing.
- spendingOutlaying of funds
- impulse buyingUnplanned purchase decision
- splurgeSpend freely, impulsively
- treat yourselfAllow personal indulgence
- shopaholicCompulsive retail addict
shopping · guilty pleasure · comfort · indulgence · credit card debt · coping mechanism · dopamine · escapism · buying · consumerism · shopping bags · bags · self-gratification · spoil · materialism · browse · credit card · wishlist
- money mistakesoverspending, impulse buying, gambling debt, debt spiral, no savings
- retailAmazon, marketplace, clearance, sale, department stores
- shoppingbuying, shopping cart, shop, purchases, sale
- consumer economyshopping, advertising, brands, marketing, sales
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- overspendingcredit card debt, maxed out cards, overdraft, impulse buying, shopping sprees
retail therapyfrugality
Economical resource management
austerity · saving · penny-pinching · thriftiness · financial discipline
retail therapypsychotherapy
Treatment through guided conversation
talk therapy · counseling · meditation · professional help · self-reflection
retail therapyminimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
decluttering · downsizing · purging · simplifying · letting go
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