Are You A Shopping Addict? Remedies To Try. Post 712 by Angela Lansbury.

Today yet another item arrived in the post for me. What was it? It was small. A scarf. Low cost. I have half a dozen items in my watch lists on Ebay. Different colours, sizes, all with this month's trend, passion, serrated edges. Inexpensive vests and tops, a dress, jackets. Should I ask for one for my birthday?

Let's admit it. I am addicted. To shopping.

Every day I look at Ebay, pay for anything which I bid on, or made an offer on. I see in whatsapp what is about to be delivered. I am inundated by notifications. 

Ebay tells me you won. Ebay tells me pay now. Ebay tells me you have paid. 

PayPal tells me you have just paid. Paypal tells me my week's spending total.

Royal mail tells me I have a tracking number. Royal Mail tells me the item is about to be delivered. Royal mail sends a picture of the item being delivered.

Each one makes me go back on line.

I can't walk past a sale sign. Or a Marks & Spencer's, or a supermarket such as Sainsbury's with sale clothes. And a sail rail.

How do you control your budget?

1 Have a dry January. - Impossible - that's when the sales are on.

2 Postpone purchases. Have items in your basket but don't buy them. 

3 Buy small items, such as scarves, ear-rings, zips.

4 Limit yourself to one item a day.

5 Sell your old clothes. Wrong size, wrong season. Buy with your income from sales.

6 Have a weekly budget. 

7 Have a daily budget. For example, each day buy a coffee, or put five pounds into a list in a diary or notebook page. Be aware of the amount spent on clothes, within the budget. 

8 Have a read, or imaginary illustration or real piggy bank. Add money, pictures of money, or promise to pay myself notes. 

9 Ask for large items as birthday presents.

10 Or New Year presents.

I wrote a chapter on hoarding and a poem.

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