Do you shop for necessity? Do you shop for comfort? How about just for plain something to do? I think that there must be some genetic defect for a shopping disorder. What else would make people buy things that they absolutely do not need? I think that just like alcoholics or drug addicts, we need our fixes of buying things. I, for one, would like for someone to find a cure. It is really quite expensive and annoying to find that you have spent a couple of hundred bucks (that you couldn't afford by the way) and don't have any reasonable goal fulfilled except to pile up more stuff. This becomes very worrisome if you can't pay your bills after your shopping extravaganzas!
So you go out and buy a new ipod. Then of course you have to have that kewl bling cover that goes with it, oh and maybe a docking station with a clock radio, so you can go to sleep litening to your new toy. Now suffice it to say, you would have been more than fine with life to JUST buy the damn iPod. So now, in your basket, you have not only the iPod, but the cover, the docking station, a neato plug in speaker, a car charger, an adapter to make it play in your car, and of course some great iTunes gift cards just for you. Then the unthinkable happens! You decide instead of the iPod you just picked out, you decide you want the one with the video capability. That means you not only have to exchange that, but every damn accessory you just put in the cart!
See where I am going with this? The overkill is what I am talking about. What leads us to spend, spend, spend even if we can't afford it? Instant gratification or just plain bad genes?
