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Shopping is the examining of goods or services from retailers with the intent to purchase at that time. Shopping is an activity of selection and/or purchase. In some contexts it is considered a leisure activity as well as an economic one.

Compulsive Shopping Addiction:

Most of us who suffer from compulsive shopping addiction (sometimes called spending addiction) are unaware of the problem. After all, everything around us seems to be saying, "Buy, buy, buy!" So...we do! We usually discover the problem only when we run out of money. Then, sadly, we think it's an income problem. I have a friend who's ex-wife is a compulsive shopping addict. When he would describe spending discussions they had, she would tell him that, if he made more money, there wouldn't be a problem. I guess his net income at that time was around $ 100,000 per year. Another friend of mine, 2 years after he sold his business for more than $ 5 million, asked me for advice on his wife's spending problem...she was spending like there was a bottomless pit of money. The problem isn't income...it's being out of control with the outgo. I don't want to give you the impression that only women suffer from this...I fight it in myself all the time. When I met my wife, she was saving and investing 50% of her net income and I was spending on credit cards as fast as I could accumulate them. Once, I bought a $ 300 gold chain because I was unhappy with my job. We addicts tend to spend money to compensate for areas in our lives where we are emotionally out of control or damaged. I'm sure the millionaire's wife felt neglected for all the years he was pursuing his business goals while she was left with their several children to manage. My other friend's ex-wife has serious emotional problems we won't detail here. I can track my out-of-control spending, even now, to times when I'm heavily stressed by my own schedule or family tragedies. Our problem is triggered by emotion and shows itself as spending but we have to understand the cause of compulsive shopping addiction in order to get a handle on the solution. Here are some recent top-selling books on compulsive shopping addiction that may help.