I have a little shame around this, but I use shopping as emotional comfort. Like eating junk food, it's unhealthy in excess, but I've recently been redirecting myself into the 'granola' of shopping - cheap jewelry. Jewelry is small, so no storage problems, and a wide variety!
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A lot of what draws me to shopping is the experience of browsing things and making a selection, and using the selected objects as sort of peacock display. Jewelry fits this perfectly with far fewer downsides than regular clothes shopping.
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Good to know that you’re a real woman not “an empowered independent something something”.
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My gf does the same. Ordering rings off of wish. So many rings. “It was 35 cents and free shipping” she’s getting stuff she doesn’t remember ordering.
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When money isn't tight, I do comfort shopping, but it's usually hardware store stuff these days :-P
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My wife and I do the same thing. I had this job that I was super depressed about but it paid better than my old job, so I just bought a bunch of random things. I learned that it is like buying for a 3 year old, cheaper stuff is better because it fills the need either way.
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