Articles and Blogs for Overshoppers
April Benson contributes blog posts on the following sites:
Other recommended blog sites:
- http://iwillbedebtfree.blogspot.com/
- http://www.inthered-alexis.blogspot.com/
- http://www.aviscardella.com/blog/
- http://myyearwithoutclothesshopping.com/blog/
Here’s a collection of relevant articles we thought you might find valuable:
2011 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying
- The New York Times (December 30, 2011)
Why We Collect Stuff - AllVoices.com (November 28, 2011)
Occupiers Tout ‘Take It Back Tuesday’ as Answer to ‘Black Friday,’ ‘Cyber Monday’ - IndiaTimes.com (November 27, 2011)
Shopaholic Girls, Watch Out! - Patheos.com (November 25, 2011)
Buying Stuff for a Life I Don’t Live - Spokesman.com (November 25, 2011)
WSU Prof: You Can Resist Impulse Buying - HuffingtonPost.com (November 25, 2011)
Black Friday Shopping: 8 Tips to Curb Overshopping - HeraldNet.com (November 23, 2011)
Family, not shopping, makes holidays special - BusinessInsider.com (November 1, 2011)
The 10 Most Shopaholic Cities In The U.S. - TheDailyBeast.com (October 30, 2011)
The New Science Behind Your Spending Addiction
- Fredericksburg.com (October 30, 2011)
‘Virtual’ games: Players or played? - TheBaylorLariat.com (October 27, 2011)
Happiness Linked to Personal Time - iVillage.com (October 25, 2011)
Indulging in Guilty Pleasures is Actually Good for You (In Small Doses) - Bankrate.com (October 17, 2011)
Are You a Social Media Gaming Spendaholic? - Telagraph.co/uk (October 13, 2011)
Buy Into a More Economic Lifestyle - IOL.co/za (October 11, 2011)
Come Check My Shopping Haul – Online - TheHindu.com (October 8, 2011)
Cambridge Letter: Compulsively Yours - CBC.ca (October 7, 2011)
Are You a Saver or a Spender? - AdvisorOne.com (September 26, 2011)
Genetics’ ‘Single Greatest Determinant’ of Financial Behavior - AFP.com (September 17, 2011)
Desperate U.S. Consumers Turn to ‘Extreme Couponing’ - TorontoSun.com (September 10, 2011)
Keep the Economic Turmoil from Taking Over Your Life - SaveCent.com (August 23, 2011)
How to Prevent Compulsive Shopping
- SFGate.com (August 16, 2011)
Tips from Recovering Shopaholic Jill Chivers
- CesiDebtSolutions.com (August 4, 2011)
Shopping Addiction — Don’t Shop When You Are Relaxed! - CareOneCredit.com (August, 2011)
Are You A Compulsive Shopper? - TheDesiMag.com (July 26, 2011)
Are You A Shopping Addict? - HindustanTimes.com (July 9, 2011)
Tata, buy buy to shopaholism - MyFoxAtlanta.com (June 28, 2011)
Health Watch: Shopping Addiction - Guardian.co.uk (June 27, 2011)
How to Cure Shopping Addiction - Suite101.com (June 25, 2011)
Financial Planning and Compulsive Shopping - TodaysZaman.com (June 16, 2011)
Men Compete with Women for Shopaholic Title - Tech News Daily (May 31, 2011)
Virtual Shopping: Men Outspend Women on Social Game Goods - DailyWorth.com (May 13, 2011)
Spending Control Tips from a Pro - DailyWorth.com (May 9, 2011)
3 Killer Debt Apps - WFSB.com (May 6, 2011)
Woman Admits to Compulsive Shopping, Returning
- Mirror.co.uk (April 28, 2011)
Three Ways to Curb Shopping Addiction - AddictionInfo.org (April 23, 2011)
Shopping Addiction - Chicago Sun Times (April 22, 2011)
Chic discount sides allow users to find designer goods for less - Miami.CBSLocal.com (April 20, 2011)
Compulsive Buyer Tries to Go a Year Without Shopping
- Squidoo.com (April 13, 2011)
How to Determine if You Have a Shopping Addiction - TheAge.com.au (April 12, 2011)
Man, the Untapped Shopaholic
- Women24.com (April 7, 2011)
Are You a Shopaholic?
- DailyWorth.com (April 1, 2011)
Avoid That Spending Avalanche - AustralianCreditCards.com.au (April, 2011)
Three Shopaholic Words: Card, Credit, and Shop - BusinessBlogs.co.nz (March 31, 2011)
Dealing with a Shopaholic - USAToday.com (March 31, 2011)
Daily deals try to entice customers into buying blitz - GoArticles.com (March 28, 2011)
What Is Shopping Addiction? - GetWiredIn.com (March 26, 2011)
How You Can Overcome Your Shopping Addiction - Blog.SeattlePI.com (March 23, 2011)
Are You a Returnaholic? - CESIDebtSolutions.org (March 22, 2011)
Overcoming a Shopping Addiction - The Meadows Newsletter (March 21, 2011)
Healing Money Trauma
- Express.co.uk (March 21, 2011)
Hypnotism Cured My Shopping Addiction
- TODAY.com Video (March 16, 2011)
5 warning signs you’re a ‘shopping bulimic’ - Women’s World (March 14, 2011)
Help me break my bad habit! - TheStandard.co.zw (March 13, 2011)
Grooming With Heather: Spending money more efficiently - NYPost.com (March 13, 2011)
Meet the Shopping Bulimics - KhaleejYimes.com (March 11, 2011)
The Rise and Rise of the Need to Buy - YourWisdom.yahoo.com (March 1, 2011)
Six Ways to Ward Off a Costly Shopping Spree - JapanTimes.co.jp (February 27, 2011)
Ditching Materialism for the Simple Life - DailyWorth.com (February 25, 2011)
Maybe Girlfriends Aren’t A Spending Hazard - Addictions.about.com (February 25, 2011)
The Allure of Retail Therapy: Why Retail Therapy Makes Difficult Emotions Worse - ScienceDaily.com (February 22, 2011)
Shopping with the Grim Reaper in Mind - AskMrCreditCard.com (February 20, 2011)
Are You Dealing with a Compulsive Buying Disorder (Shopaholism)? - Care2.com (February 17, 2011)
Health Benefits of Shopping? - GetRichSlowly.com (February 15, 2011)
Confessions of a Spendaholic: How to Curb Compulsive Spending - Oprah.com (February 15, 2011)
Do You Need to Go on a Buying Diet? - Tvnz.co.uk (February 9, 2011)
Shopaholic goes year without shopping - MoneyCrashers.com (February 2011)
How to Curb your Compulsive Shopping & Spending Addiction — Help for Shopaholics - People’s Daily Online (January 26, 2011)
Poll: 71 percent addicted to online shopping - Themedguru.com (January 20, 2011)
Shoapaholic? It’s all in your surname - AOLHealth.com (January 20, 2011)
The Behavioral Addictions: Do They Really Exist? - Credit.com (January 20, 2011)
Three Signs You’re a Compulsive Shopper - Addictions.about.com (January 16, 2011)
How CBT Helped Cheryl Stop Spending Too Much - Leavedebtbehind.com (January 16, 2011)
Impulsive or Compulsive: What Kind of Shopper Are You? - Shine.yahoo.com (January 13, 2011)
Is Your Partner Cheating On You Financially? - shoping-advices.com (January 11, 2011)
Compulsive Online Shoppers Can Use a Web Filter to Control Their Habit - Creditcardguide.com (January 10, 2011)
Credit Cards and Retail Therapy: How Much Is Too Much? - Women24.com (January 10, 2011)
Addicted to Shopping?
2010 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying
- couriermail.com.au (December 25, 2010)
Reining in retail addiction - freep.com (December 24, 2010)
Ask questions about store return policy - austriantimes.at (December 22, 2010)
Every fourth Austrian threatened by shopping addiction - globaltimes.cn (December 17, 2010)
Shopping madness set to infect China - internet-addiction-guide.com (December 16, 2010)
Is there such a thing as compulsive shopping? - OttawaSun.com (December 14, 2010)
Spending gone wild - money.blogs.time.com (December 14, 2010)
The True Meaning of Shopping - TorontoSun.com (December 14, 2010)
Spending gone wild - CreditCards.com (December 9, 2010)
Careless-spending celebrities lose sympathy with American public - NaplesNews.com (December 8, 2010)
Choices: When shopping becomes a problem - openforum.com (December 7, 2010)
Being Rich and Thin Go Hand in Hand - TheGleaner.com (December 4, 2010)
Don’t be a shopaholic this season
- kcrg.com (December 3, 2010)
Are You A Compulsive Shopper? - MedicalNewsToday.com (December 1, 2010)
Have Yourself A Mindful Merry Christmas
- CreditCards.com (November 29, 2010)
Home-shopping channel addiction: A fast path to credit card debt - cwd.com (November 26, 2010)
Black Friday sales could spark shopaholic spree - thedailybeast.com (November 25, 2010)
Who Spends the Most? - nypost.com (November 25, 2010)
Addicts who face $$ death by plastic - CNNMoney.com (November 22, 2010)
How stores get you to spend more - lemondrop.com (November 17, 2010)
Seasonal Shopaholism — 5 Tips to Avoid Overspending This Year - Together.com (November 1, 2010)
Have a Good – Not a Goods – Holiday - cnn.com (November 1, 2010)
Get your holiday shopping act together now - milwaukeemagazine.com (October 25, 2010)
The Diva - nypress.com (October 20, 2010)
Free at La$t - abc4.com (October 19, 2010)
Australian Shopaholic Attempts 12 Months Without Clothes Shopping - vanguard.com (October 13, 2010)
How to Recognize if You Have a Shopping Problem - nytimes.com (October 8, 2010)
Reverend Billy’s Revelation: A Role for Money - thehindu.com (October 6, 2010)
Attention, shopaholics! - Miller-McCune.com (October 5, 2010)
Menstruation and the Mall - Bankrate.com (October 1, 2010)
5 steps to stop compulsive spending - Helium.com (October 1, 2010)
Avoiding impulse spending - The Independent (October 1, 2010)
Shop-and-tell web trend fuels tween addicts - San Diego Statement Newsletter (October, 2010)
Stopping Overshopping - portsmouth.co.uk (September 11, 2010)
Triple tragedy made me a shopaholic - creditcards.com (September 8, 2010)
Severe debt can cause depression and even suicide - guardian.co.uk (August 27, 2010)
Confessions of a spendaholic – and how I turned my life around - Mail&Guardian.com (August 27, 2010)
Women, fashion and debt - ChicagoTribune.com (August 26, 2010)
Do you shop compulsively? - FavStocks.com (August 23, 2010)
Trick Yourself Into Curbing Your Compulsive Spending With The 30 Day Rule - CNNMoney.com (August 9, 2010)
Fight the addiction to shop - The New York Times (August 7, 2010)
But Will It Make You Happy? - cbsnews.com (August 5, 2010)
Giuliani Daughter Shoplifting Arrest: Is Alleged Theft a Cry for Help? - TheNewYorkTimes.com (July 21, 2010)
Shoppers on a ‘Diet’ Tame the Urge to Buy - InTheRooms.com (July 16, 2010)
Compulsive Online Shoppers Can Use a Web Filter to Control Their Habit - TheDailyTelegraph.com (July 13, 2010)
Shopaholics driven by the same disorder as hoarders - GulfNews.com (July 10, 2010)
Into the mind of the spender - LadiesHomeJournal-digital.com (July 1, 2010)
Why You Spend More Than You Think - Esperanza Magazine (June 30, 2010)
Buying Trouble - Women24.com (June 30, 2010)
Are you a shopaholic? - DailyWorth.com (June 25, 2010)
Help! My Spending is Boiling Over - EzineArticles.com (June 21, 2010)
How to Deal With Compulsive Shopping Addiction - SloanMagazine.com (June 18, 2010)
Deal Breakers, pg. 30-33 - KBKWealthConnection.com (May 27, 2010)
Is Your Loved One a Compulsive Shopper? - Los Angeles Times (May 10, 2010)
Parkinson’s meds and compulsive behaviors: a strong link - US News.com (May 6, 2010)
7 Questions for Shopaholics - LearnVest.com (April 15, 2010)
Why Do People REALLY Shop? - huffingtonpost.com (April 7, 2010)
Big Spender: Avis Cardella Comes Clean - huffingtonpost.com (April 7, 2010)
Avis Cardella, Author of Spent Discusses Shopping Addiction - psychologytoday.com (March 24, 2010)
DSM5 Suggests Opening The Door To Behavioral Addictions - LearnVestLiving.com (March 22, 2010)
How To Make Sure Your “Deal” Is Really A Deal - ItsYourHealthRadio.org (March 18, 2010)
Stopping Overshopping - FinancialAwakenings.com (March 8, 2010)
A Prescription for Financial Health - Beliefnet.com (March 8, 2010)
Are You a Shopaholic? - DrugAlcoholNews.com (March 5, 2010)
Debtors Anonymous (DA – Compulsive Debt) - The New York Times (March 4, 2010)
Skin Deep: One-Touch Shopping, for Members Only - AlterNet.org (March 2, 2010)
Rethinking the Shopper’s High: New Ways to Get the Rush Without Laying Out the Cashenses Revealed - Ivanhoe.com (February 18, 2010)
Money: Born To Spend - Mail Online (February 1, 2010)
How to…give up shopping (or at least cut down) - SavingAdvice.com (January 15, 2010)
Women Hate Shopping, Too
2009 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying
- channelnewsasia.com (December 29, 2009)
A time to shop, a time to stop - Divine Caroline (December 20, 2009)
Consumer Reports: Four Different Shopping Personalities - Middletown Journal (December 19, 2009)
Shoppers sticking to budgets - nj.com (December 16, 2009)
Compulsive shopping is a real problem - LF Press (December 12, 2009)
How to teach kids not to be greedy - Marie Claire (December 1, 2009)
Buy, But Beware - TransWorldNews (November 30, 2009)
C.A.R.E Helps Battle Shopping Addictions This Holiday Season - CNBC.com (November 24, 2009)
Why the American Consumer Will Keep Buying No Matter What - Northern News (November 20, 2009)
Is there a method to the packaging madness? - Metropolitan Organizing (November 18, 2009)
Interview with Stopping Overshopping Expert - Press of Atlantic City (November 18, 2009)
Holiday season a dangerous time for those with addictions - EmaxHealth (November 16, 2009)
Black Friday Sales Fuel Shopaholics - The Daily Beast (November 11, 2009)
7 Signs You’re a Shopaholic - The Daily Beast (November 3, 2009)
Nicolas Cage, Compulsive Spender - Parade.com (October 25, 2009)
Why Shopping Is Good Again - WomensForum.com (October 21, 2009)
Compulsive Buying Disorder - Newschannel5.com (October 13, 2009)
Do You Have A Shopping Addiction? - Oprah.com (October 9, 2009)
A Hoarder’s Reality - ABCNews (October 2, 2009)
Shopaholic Describes Childhood Trauma, Need to Buy - ABCNews (October 1, 2009)
Can Therapy Stop Shopaholic from Spending? - Thaindian News (September 24, 2009)
6 out of 10 Brit women say shopping gives them a buzz - Richmond Times-Dispatch (September 20, 2009)
Compulsive buyers drawn to Internet, survey finds - NewsTribune (September 17, 2009)
The Bottom Line – Tales of a shopaholic - Minding Your Matters (September 18, 2009)
R U a Buyer, part 2 - Minding Your Matters (September 16, 2009)
R U a Buyer, part 1 - The Arizona Republic (September 14, 2009)
Recession makes consumers more cautious - DeseretNews.com (September 13, 2009)
Cheap thrills come at a real price - Examiner.com (August 23, 2009)
How to Resist Compulsive Shopping - AOL, Canada (August 11, 2009)
10 Questions About Shopping to Fill An Emotional Void - Thaindian News (August 7, 2009)
Women’s shopping guilt not long-lasting - DivineCaroline.com (August, 2009)
Why Do Some People Have Addictive Personalities? - TheAge.com.au (July 12, 2009)
Swap Till Your Fashion Footprint Drops - Oprah.com (July , 2009)
6 Common Shopping Traps–And How to Avoid Them - pressemeldungen.at (July, 2009)
Credit Cards: Do You Suffer From Credit Card Addiction? - MSN, Money Central
5 ways to stop the urge to shop - Times Online (June 21, 2009)
War artist Peter Howson can’t fight cash urge - DailyWorth.com (June 19, 2009)
Stop Overshopping: 3 Proven Strategies - ABCNews.com (June 17, 2009)
Last-Minute Splurges: Why You Can’t Resist - The Toronto Star (June 11, 2009)
Prodigal father-in-law needs a tough spending diet - Standard Freeholder (May 31, 2009):
Shopaholic looking to kick expensive habit - Northern Territory News (May 31, 2009):
Shopaholic keeps partner in the dark - The Jakarta Post (May 30, 2009):
Life’s little luxuries for the lads - Thaindian News (May 23, 2009):
Depression prompts women to shop more - The Sun.co.uk (May 22, 2009):
Confessions of a male shopaholic - The New York Times (May 18, 2009):
Message in What We Buy, But Nobody’s Listening - Belfast Telegraph (May 8, 2009):
Being Single and Huge Debts Weigh Me Down - Denver Post (May 7, 2009):
Overcoming My Shopping Addiction - The Age.com.au (April 29, 2009):
Your Turn: To Buy or Not to Buy - The Gleaner (April 25, 2009):
What turns women into spending-spree monsters? Shopzilla – Reining in buying binges - Times Online (April 19, 2009):
Why it’s Good to Indulge the Urge to Splurge - Click Liverpool (April 15, 2009):
Emily Tinne…The Original Fashion Shopaholic - Business Times (April 15, 2009):
Spendaholic Anonymous - Newswise.com (April 8, 2009):
Managing Money by Managing Materialism in Kids - TheAge.com (April 1, 2009):
Trouble in Store - BBC News (March 30, 2009):
Shopping Sprees LInked to Periods - Softpedia.com (March 30, 2009):
Women’s Compulsive Shopping LInked to PMS - ABCNews (March 26, 2009):
Confessions of a Real Shopaholic - Tnjn.com (March 24, 2009):
Shopping Hides Bad Memories - CNN.com (March 19, 2009):
Breaking the taboo: Talking money with your family - News.bbc.co.uk (March 18, 2009):
Nursery theft for shopping spree - Dailymail.co.uk (March 17, 2009):
Charity boss stole 53,000 pounds in donations…to fund clothes-buying addiction - DailyWorth.com (March 13, 2009):
To Buy or Not To Buy - Thisismoney.co.uk (March 11, 2009):
How can I escape my wife’s debts? - Thestandard.com.hk (March 10, 2009):
Shopaholic who stole 6million for spree jailed - Psychotherapy Finances (March, 2009)
Reaching Out to Clients with Debt and Money Troubles - Psychotherapynetworker.org, (March/April 2009):
To Buy or Not to Buy - Utne Reader, p. 15, (March/April 2009):
Selling Out the Brain (not available online) - WW – p.129, (March 2009):
How I Gave Up Shopping - The Sydney Morning Herald , (February 21-22, 2009):
Can’t buy me love - Belfast Telegraph (February 21, 2009):
Confession to Being a Shopping Addict Can Be No Laughing Matter - ExpressNightOut.com (February 17, 2009):
Trouble Stopping Shopping: Compulsive Buying Disorder - New York Daily News (February 12, 2009):
Thanks, recession! Tough Times Help Shopaholics - Associated Content (February 11, 2009):
Oniomaniac Movie Just in Time for Valentine’s Day - The Royal Gazette, Bermuda (February 8, 2009):
There’s a cure for compulsive shopping… - The Spectator (February 5, 2009):
Are Shopaholics Really Ill? - STV.tv (January 29, 2009):
Shopaholic tells of 32,000 pound debt - The New York Times (January 28, 2009):
Attention, Shopaholics: Your Weakness May Be a Proper Disease
2008 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying
- nePsy.com (December 2008):
Compulsive shopping: disorder or disease? - NOW Magazine (December 29, 2008):
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=166605 - Newsweek.com (December 18, 2008):
Shopaholics’ Dilemma - Divorce360 (December 15, 2008):
Married to a Shopaholic? Holidays Can Be Tough for your Marriage - Wall St. Journal (December 14, 2008):
This Year, More Than Ever, It’s Tough to Be a Compulsive Shopper. - Adbusters Magazine December 4, 2008:
http://www.adbusters.org/features/what_would_buddha_buy.html - Washington Post (December 3, 2008):
Attention Shoppers, Where’s Your Humanity? - Compulsive Shopping: Disorder or disease? (December 2008)
- NY Times (October 29, 2008): Consumers Feel the Next Crisis: Credit Cards
- Washington Times (October 20, 2008): Identify Buying Addicts
- Oprah.com (October 9, 2008): Declutter Your Finances
- Business Week (October 2008): When it’s more than a spree
- Body and Soul (September 2008): Closet Case
- CNN.com (September 29, 2008): Gotta Have it — No Matter What
- CreditFYI.com (September 10, 2008): Why TV Shopping Can Wreck Your Personal Finances
- The Motley Fool (August 26, 2008): Lessons From A Shopaholic
- Worthwhile Economics Read by Brad DeLong (August 23, 2008): Tanta: Duelling Discourses of Debt
- New York Times (July 22, 2008): Op-Ed Columnist: The Culture of Debt
- Los Angeles Times (July 21, 2008): Compulsive Shopping: Is It A Disorder?
- New York Times (July 20, 2008): Given a Shovel, Americans Dig Deeper Into Debt
- New York Daily News (July 17, 2008): New TV Special Looks at Compulsive Spenders Who Risk All For a Retail Fix
- New York Times (July 5, 2008): Shortcuts: ‘Two for One’… ‘Free Delivery’… Hooked Yet?
- Washington Post (June 29, 2008): All-Consuming Problem
- Wall Street Journal (June 10, 2008): Hi, My Name Is Fred, And I’m Addicted to Credit Cards
- MSNBC (March 3, 2008): Why We Buy: The Truth About Shopaholics
- Live Science (March 3, 2008): The Truth About Shopaholics
- MSN Money (February 14, 2008): When Bargain Hunting is an Addiction
- Kaua’i Business Report (January 2008): When Shopping Is Out of Control
- Monitor on Psychology (January 2008): Money Talks
- MSNBC (January 17, 2008): Holidays are over; it’s time to pay for it all
- MSNBC (January 14, 2008): Putting a price on happiness
2007 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying
- Newsweek (October 14, 2007): Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness
- Oprah.com (May 25, 2007): Shopping and Clutter
