I enjoy going to local thrift stores if that counts as shopping. I regret the wasteful consumerism of my 20s (when I worked in a mall & spent my paychecks on cheap clothes at Forever 21 & used my employee discount at Borders to buy DVDs (what a waste when we were on the cusp of Netflix rising to power) ) & now in my mid-30s I’ve made attempts to buy second hand whenever possible (almost all my clothes), books from those free neighborhood library boxes, furniture etc.
I don’t even shop at Target much anymore, outside of household items like toiletries & filling Rx & then around Christmas for my kids (thought I try to support a local toy store as my budget allows as well).
i buy everything off Amazon because I'm a horrible person but when i can get a combo pack of shampoo/ conditioner for half the price of a storefront somewhere else online, I'll go there.
I use to love buying DVDs but now that everything can be stored in external drives and cloud, I just want to get rid of my collection. I didn't realize how much space it took up until I had to pack everything in boxes.
I love thrift shopping. 99% of my clothes I get secondhand, pretty much everything except underwear and leggings. Anything I don't get there, I'll get at a place like Ross or TJ Maxx. I very, very rarely shop at a standard department store anymore.
Same. I’m spoiled for thrift store prices now too. I went to a mall recently just to walk around & looked at price tags in like, even at H&M, for that quality, the audacity of some of those price tags.
I went to NZ last year and got a pair of pants at cotton on. They've pilled like no tomorrow but they were cheap and are still good house pants. The sweater I got is quite nice.
She probably means shopping , herself in person. You know damn well she’s sending an assistant to Gucci to pick shit up she has held for her. 😂. And to answer the question. I really had to come to grips with myself and slow things WAY down. I kinda diagnosed myself with having a shopping addiction. It was really weird , I noticed that everyday I had to buy ....something. But I wouldn’t buy anything too expensive and it didn’t even have to be clothes. If could literally be a bottle of juice. And I did the math and I was spending an embarrassing amount of money when it all added up. Probably due to me growing up poor and now I’m not since I’m an adult so it gave me some sense of validation. I’m a lot better now though.
This is me right now. I'm going through some shit and started really looking at my spending habits and noticed I was buying things (even something really small) just to make myself feel any kind of positivity. I've recently cut back and am trying to find other outlets.
it's a VERY weird habit when you really notice yourself doing it. it's like "i don't even NEED this stupid pack of mints, but I bought nothing else today and here we are' lol. But at the same time it's self-damaging because if it goes on too long, and thankfully I'm financially good as far as my income goes, and I have a stable home-base, it can really drain you. I could have saved thousands of dollars just by not buying dumb ass little shit and I just never really realized it. I hope whatever shit you're going through you get through bb. Life sucks sometimes, but you got this. Also, I've said this before to other members here, if you ever need to vent or anything feel free to message me.
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I don’t even shop at Target much anymore, outside of household items like toiletries & filling Rx & then around Christmas for my kids (thought I try to support a local toy store as my budget allows as well).
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