Recommended Reading: Mindfulness and Money: The Buddhist Path of Abundance
An overshopper who completed the Stopping Overshopping Program read Mindfulness and Money shortly after she’d finished the work of the […]
Money Behaviors
Compulsive Buying, Online Shopping Addiction
Compulsive Buying on the Internet: Recent Research
Are you addicted to eBay? Do you overshop at Amazon? Have you found yourself spending a lot of time on
Money Behaviors
Face the Facts About Your Credit Card Debt
Credit cards are the ultimate legal drug in a materialist culture, deceptively empowering and beautifully insulated from the feel of
Retail Psychology
God Save My Shoes
In the works is a documentary that explores the passionate, elaborate, mysterious, and centuries-old relationship between women and their shoes.
Money Psychology, Retail Psychology
Recommended Reading: Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
Consumed offers a disturbing and thought-provoking look into the consumer capitalist system that dominates American society. In bold brush strokes,
Compulsive Buying
Recommended Reading: Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding
Many visitors to our website have described themselves (or been described by family or friends) in ways that suggest hoarding,
Money Behaviors, Money Psychology
Does Money Make us Independent, Indifferent, or Stingy?
A recently published behavioral study ties together nine experiments, each one designed to test the effect of money consciousness on
Control Shopping
Strategy for Stopping Overshopping: To Stop or Not to Stop
Whenever you have the urge to overshop, explore your ambivalence. Ask, “What does my heart say? What would be good
Money Behaviors, Money Psychology
Recommended Reading: Secret Keeping: Overcoming Hidden Habits and Addictions John Howard Prin (New World Library, 2006)
Shame and denial about their behavior propels many overshoppers to hide this addiction—from other people and from themselves. While Secret
Compulsive Buying, Money Behaviors, Money Psychology
Research Reported in the New York Times
Three recent articles in the New York Times attracted our attention. “Money Doesn’t Talk,” by Shivani Vora, looks at the