Our shopping habits are out of control – as are debt levels. So when is this narcissistic spree going to stop?
A survey by ClearDebt, published recently in More magazine, showed that about 8 in 10 women are spending more than they earn. Of 2,000 women polled, half owed an average of £3,830 on credit cards, and 40% have been bailed out by their parents. Men may have to save up for ages for a car, a suit or a new laptop, but then they have the money to pay for it. Sorry, sisters, but the trend of “binge debt” is basically a female phenomenon.
Now, shopping is the No 1 leisure activity, rather than a boring household chore. Even when we go away for weekends we spend part of them shopping – because we’re hooked on buying stuff, and spending money has become a basic human right. We are what we buy, and we buy because we are. “L’Oréal’s slogan ‘Because you’re worth it’ has come to epitomise the banal narcissism of early 21st-century capitalism: easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card,” says Geoff Mulgan, director of the Young Foundation think-tank.
“I don’t impulse-buy; I always think carefully before I spend money on something,” says the writer Liz Jones. Then, in the next breath, she confesses to having just bought an “elephant club chair” and, oh yes, a house. “But I’ve still got a terrible credit rating, and the bailiffs have been round. What happens is, I get what I want, and then I discover that it doesn’t make me any happier and then I get depressed.
After you’ve discovered that the new handbag will not, after all, change your life, you discover, to your chagrin, that you’re still the same person – then what?
The cunning, insidious brilliance of the slogan “Because you’re worth it” persuaded many women that debt should never be an obstacle to spending, because their only debt was to themselves.
Alhamdulillah...i'm not the type who shop for myself...
25:36 And the true servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk the earth with humility and when the ignorant address them, they respond with words of peace.
i get a migraine if shopping lasts for more then 1 hour.
but seriously shopping seems like people wasting time, u like somethin BUY IT, dont go picking up one million things u gnna end up putting back :grumbling
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My tears testify that i have a heart
yet i feel me and shaytan never part
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but seriously shopping seems like people wasting time, u like somethin BUY IT, dont go picking up one million things u gnna end up putting back :grumbling
But we have to make sure we know what available before we buy something. We might like something more than what we already bought, or find something similar for cheaper. That is why you gotta take your time and look around!
But we have to make sure we know what available before we buy something. We might like something more than what we already bought, or find something similar for cheaper. That is why you gotta take your time and look around!
if u liked somethin why look for something better :confused:
time is more valuable then that !!
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My tears testify that i have a heart
yet i feel me and shaytan never part
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^ i think its more of an individual thing. my older sister is exactly like me at shopping, but her husband is a complete girl, he tries on everything etc
yes guys like that DO exist they just keep it hidden because its embarassing
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My tears testify that i have a heart
yet i feel me and shaytan never part
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Re: Because we're worth it
lol j/k
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they just keep it hidden because its embarassing
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