I really think i should map out a budget plan. This past months I've been shopping like crazy! Mostly I found myself buying things are when I'm feeling down. Could the statement be true 'You tend to shop more when you're depress'? Does shopping would actually make yourself feel better? Or is it all just a psychologically thinking it would so you get to BUY something? Or do you uses shopping to change your mood?
Yes, We shouldn't be afraid to like things. From a collectible cosmetics to Designer handbags. You know you like it, you talk about it, you look for it, and you buy it.
Well I myself admit, it sometimes bothers me quite a bit that I can't afford to buy all things that I like. And there sometimes (fine, most of the time) I just feel like buying something. Even I knew it's not necessary but you ended up buying it anyway. I don't know, the feeling when you bought a thing; you're happy. But then yeah there's this. Once you've reached home or on the way home in you car you'll think it over.. "What did i just bought? Oh shit. There goes my 200 bucks". The feeling of regretness arise. For a day. Then ops, there you go you did it again. And again.
Or when recently you had a bad day at work or at home, you went out to buy a new dress and a cocktail napkins with humorous phrases on them where you imagined you could use it for a dinner party. Back at home, though, when you laid down all your purchases on the bed, suddenly you realise you spent too much your friends probably rebuff your dinner invitation?
Come on honestly, hadn't you ever think most things you spent are not actually practical? Hmm.
I often had this thought in my head, what about to those who are happy? Do they not shop? Do they trully feel 'full'?
I believe there's another type of materialist shops who agree with statements like "I admire people who own expensive things" and "It's important to have lots of things in life". I used to be like those "I'm happy with what I have" kinda type. Not that now I am not~ just lately have been a bit 'aggressively' spender.
There are three types of materialists in this world-and for one of them, shopping is a "virtuous" cycle that actually decreases loneliness over time. When we're lonely our first impulse is to reconnect with others, it's often easier to go shopping. Findings from a new study show when we're feeling blue and socially isolated, we shop. Shopping, meanwhile makes us even more depressed and alone. To fix it, we shop- and the vicious cycle continues.
Materials aren't created equal. I read this one quote from an article of Rik Pieters, a marketing professor at the Tilburg University in the Netherlands- "Relationships can be hard. People can say no, but an iPad can't." "You want to be around peope who are happy. You don't want to be around people who are saying 'if only, if only I could buy a new BMW, or sports yacht'," Pieter said. Lol love that idea.
Personally think, not all materialists are created equal. One of the three types of shoppers Pieters identified uses shopping as a medicine to feel differently. Shopping is a drug that gives them a fix when they're down or turns feeling normal into a buzz.
