2016 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying

BBC
- Could reinvention solve our shopping addiction?
CheatSheet
- Shopaholic? 3 Ways to Curb Your Shopping Addiction
Baylor Media Communications
- Consumer Behavior Expert Shares Four Savings Goals, Financial Tips for the New Year
Bustle
- 5 Interesting Studies About Shopping, Because You Might As Well Understand Why You’re Currently Broke
- 4 Ways To Break Your Shopping Addiction Before You Get Into Debt
The Sydney Morning Herald
- I quit clothes shopping for a year and this is what I learnt
- Wardrobe lessons from a reformed shopaholic
The Fix
- Oniomania: The Rush of the Purhcases
Grow From Acorns
- Yes, Money Can Buy Happiness — If You Spend It Right
Elite Daily
- I Quit Buying Clothes For Three Months To Change My Shopaholic Mindset
Bangalore Magazine
- Contain your digital urge to splurge
Elite Daily
- Shopaholics Anonymous: 10 Ways to Scale Back Your Impulsive Shopping Tendencies
MyYearWithoutClothesShopping.com
- What A Shopping Ban Can Teach You
MyYearWithoutClothesShopping.com
- How A Shopping Hiatus Can Help
MyYearWithoutClothesShopping.com
- What Are We Waiting For?
Dublin’s 98 FM
- UH-OH; 10 SINGS YOU’RE ADDICTED TO ONLINESHOPPING
Las Vegas Review Journal
- 5 Signs You Have A Spending Problem
Daily News Egypt
- Fast fashion: What’s your waste size?
New York Post
- Online Shopping Has Created A Whole New Breed of Addicts
Bustle
- ‘Confessions Of A Shopaholic’ Has A Message That Never Stops Being Relevant
Go Banking Rates
- 9 Spending Triggers That Can Leave You Poor
Myyearwithoutclothesshopping.com
- 100 Ideas
Myyearwithoutclothesshoppping.com
- Lessons From My Grandmother
Economic Times
- Confessions of a shopaholic: How India buys on mobile
Preen Inquirer
- Help! What Do I Do To Stop My Shopping Addiction?
Public Citizen
- Stronger Warning Labels Needed on Drugs That Make Patients Lose Control
All Africa
- Uganda: Shopping Addiction Is As Dangerous As Other Vices
Luxury Daily
- VeryFirstTo takes stand against shopping addiction despite volatile retail environment
WCNC
- BLOG: Confessions of a shopaholic
The Telegraph
- ‘Miserly’ Henry VII was actually a shopaholic who spent 3 million on clothes
American Banker
- Should Faster Payments Be Well, Slower?
My Year Without Clothes Shopping
- Simple Pleasures
My Year Without Clothes Shopping
- Cleansing Your Closet
My Year Without Clothes Shopping
- 7 Simple Truths About Sales
bemorewithless
- When You Feel Bad About Buying Something New
ICan’tStopSpending.com
- I Can’t Stop Spending podcast series
PR LEAP
- Abilify Lawsuit News: Bernstein Liebhard LLP Notes FDA Warning Regarding Abilify and Compulsive Gambling, Other Impulsive Problems
MarketWatch
- Overconsumption is biggest threat to American dream
Cohasset Wicked Local
- ANDERSON’S WINDOW: Confessions of a shopaholic
ABC triplej HACK
- Oniomania: when shopping becomes an addiction
SmartCookies
- Oprah and The Smart Cookies: Top 3 Tips For Your Debt Diet
Tech Times
- Mental Health Drug Aripiprazole May Cause Uncontrollable Urges To Gamble, Shop, Binge Eat, And Have Sex: FDA
Elite Daily
- I Keep Shopping Obsessively To Distract Myself From My Boy Problems
The Student Printz
- Does Amazon enable shopping addiction?
EurekAlert!: The Global Source for Science News
- Parkinson’s disease meds increase the risk of compulsive gambling, shopping, binge eating
Elite Daily
- I Quit Buying Clothes For Three Months To Change My Shopaholic Mindset
The Irish Times
- Tanya Sweeney: Shopping addiction is real-take it from someone who knows
Recovering Shopaholic
- What Caused Your Compulsive Shopping Problem?
The Huffington Post Australia
- How To Curb Your Shopping Spending Habits In 2016
Warrington Guardian
- Shopaholic Challenged to not Buy Any New Clothes in 2016
Bristol Post
- New Course to Help Bristol Shopping Addicts
NBC Washington
- Ex-Bank Manager Pleads Guilty to Embezzling More Than $1 Million to Help Fund Shopping Addiction

Carrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com, a website for women focused on mind and money behaviors. She has worked in the financial services industry for 20+ years and hopes to inspire women to better prepare themselves for financial independence.

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