How to know if you are an impulsive spender

It may be too generalizing that women tend to have bad habit of ‘shopping ecstasy’. But it practice, we can find such phenomenon takes place from day to day. This habit shows up when someone gets to buy goods that might be out of list of purchasing plan. Having a stroll at market center for window shopping, women are likely to get tempted to buy what they haven’t intended to do before. Professor Tahira K. Hira named it as ‘impulsive buying’, a shopping habit that normally happens out of the rational self-control. The person who tends to do so is called as an impulsive spender. Realizing the bad effect of uncontrolled shopping attitude, it seems to be necessary to learn how to know if you an impulsive spender or not.

There are at least ten symptoms that could measure if you are an impulsive spender or not.

1. Shopping as the expression of feeling disappointment or depression

2. Having personal or family problems due to the exaggerating shopping habit

3. Frequent quarrel as a result of uncontrolled shopping habit

4. Feeling lack of convenience when going out without a credit card

5. Purchasing some goods in credit when paying in cash is nor affordable

6. Self awareness that spending too much money is a fool and prohibited

7. Feeling guilty, shy, or upset right after shopping

8. Lying to others especially one’s own couple about what has been consumed and how money spent

9. Bad management over self saving and expenditure by the reason of shopping demand

10. Feeling incapable of overcoming self shopping demand

You have knowledge how to know if you an impulsive spender of not now. Identify point by point in accordance to the ten symptoms above. Behave afterward wisely in order to manage better your self shopping habit.