Hello! I think I have oniomania (shopping mania). I buy new clothes every 3-4 days, although I have plenty. When I go to a grocery store with a pre-made list, separately if there is money left I buy things that I don't even eat that much, for example I buy chips and chocolates every day out of habit. When I have leftovers, I make sure to spend it. I have financial opportunities, but the problem is that I buy things I don't even need and then I don't know what to do with them. I used to enjoy new purchases, but now I don't care, I even feel bad after buying them. I need help, I can't stop spending.
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Hello! Do not worry. You can do this - when it occurs to you to buy something with the rest of the money, don't do it, but put the money in a pocket or purse and when you get home, put it in a piggy bank or something like that. And so every time. It will be difficult for you at the beginning, so do it with the thought that when you raise more money you will buy more things at once, and not one by one, or with the thought that if you do not take it you can find something better that you really want And gradually you will get used to not buying things you don't need. Success!
Don't go to the supermarket when you're hungry.
And I suffer from it. Some people who have not experienced it will call it pampering or lagging, but it is much more complicated and nasty. I've gotten to the point where even falling asleep at night, if I don't figure out where to go and what to buy, my day seems pointless. And in the morning when I wake up and imagine leaving and how I go and buy something, I get so excited, it's just a holiday. I imagine first drinking coffee, then having lunch, then going and making the purchase. I feel terribly guilty because I'm in debt, but I can't, if I don't, I become pessimistic, depressed, exhausted, as if the world is over. I know girlfriends who have an awful lot of money and don't feel guilty, they just go every day and spend. Maybe if I had a lot of money, I wouldn't feel guilty. I have spoiled the rent more than once.