Shopaholic Me?

Just realised how much I've spent in a month plus or so. It went straight to my head and left me with the question whether "Am I turning into a shopaholic?" The term 'shopaholic' creates an unfamiliar term on me and like most of the modern people in the world, I turned to the Internet for answers and solutions. Found this article in the bankrate.com by Jay MacDonald:

"You might be a shopaholic if...

When shopaholic becomes a problem
What do women want? In order of preference, most female compulsive shoppers buy clothes, shoes, jewelry, makeup and compact discs.

Men? Clothing, shoes, electronics (TVs, stereos, computers, etc.), hardware and CDs.

Sounds normal enough, right? So how does compulsive shopping differ from your last trip to the mall?

"Well, they don't buy one CD, they buy 10 CDs at a time," says Black. "They might buy five skirts, all the same, perhaps in different shades or slightly different styles, where a normal buyer would identify a need for something new or attend a sale and buy one item."

Benson notes that shopaholics overspend on services as well as goods.

"I had one patient who had her hair blown dry maybe two or three times a week. Between the color, the cut and the blow-dry, she was spending at least $200 if not $250 a week on her hair, and that didn't include all the hair products," she says.

Some shopaholics have more eccentric tastes, though they are by far the minority. Black had one patient who was addicted to Beanie Babies, another who compulsively bought garden figurines; Benson treated a man who only bought compulsively for his camper."

And this is freaky. A camera handphone, some clothes, a pair of sandals, a badminton racquet and a pair of shoes, and a guitar in a month. I've to really sort this symptom out to avoid more unnecessary spending. Perhaps I should really do some serious budgetting. Lol.

God bless.