Does anyone here have an actual addiction to spending/shopping? I there really such a thing? I think I may have a problem, but am not sure what the signs are of an actual spending addiction? Any guidence you could give me would be helpful.

Baby it is called shopping therapy! Ha Ha Ha. I am laughing so hard its not at you because so may pepople have it what they call it and how to stop it I don't know. But you re not alone trusst that I could have 5.00 to my name five days till pay day and I will buy a movie that is always on t.v. I have seen twenty times, but it's only three dollars. How to help you with it I don't know but you are not alone .
Goddess Bless
Stacey

I know the feeling. It can be thereputic, but at the same time scary. I'm worried that I may eventually get myself (and family) into ome serios finacnial problems. I am always spending, or coming up with some expensive home improvement project that we really can't afford or just buying, buying all the tuime. I can not stop :nono:

…I'm worried that I may eventually get myself andfamily into some serious financial problems. I am always spending, or coming up with some expensive home improvement project that we really can't afford or just buying, buying all the time. I can not stop
Hi K-
I am not addicted to spending but have had times where the home projects were a bit much and I bit off more then I could chew. I kept myself busy and preoccupied with work, planning and projects & eventually had to slow down because I was getting worn out. I had a reality check when I had an abnormal mri of the brain. Long story short, it helped me to put everything into perspective about the now and future. Same again when I had a fine needle aspiration and waiting a long time in the office for the results, my life flashed in front of my eyes, these are moments that fast forward your life in your mind. Everything gets very real, very fast.

When you stop that, it will come back to you and you can listen to your intuition or continue spending.
I think part of that comes from the notion some "thing" is going to make us happy but it can be short lived at least until the next purchase or project. It’s not worth carrying the debt. What is therapeutic about charging something you can't afford? It’s about excessiveness & impulse. Work on a budget plan & stick to it. You can’t relapse because that will cost you. Cut up the cards & give yourself an allowance. Credit cards give you more power then you should have if you can't stop buying things, it does not empower it enslaves. You have to fight the impulse. There is nothing out there that you can buy that will make for lasting happiness. I think it's partly an attempt to obtain contentment in place of peace & perfection in an imperfect world. Having champagne taste on a Pepsi budget takes discipline. Television floods the brain with views & lifestyles that are not realistic or reflect the lives of the majority of Americans today. Find different ways to generate good feelings. Change your thoughts about money. Remember when you had to save up for something you wanted? A return to pre credit card times. Call the creditors and have all but one of your credit accounts "closed by consumer". Try thinking a credit card should be used for convenience and not for credit. You can make a healthy income & finance yourself to the poor house, finance the expensive car, digs, vacations and not saving. Think, every time I charge something another piece of me is gone, in owing a new debt, it will just end up being more burdensome and isn’t worth it…Start thinking that way before you are maxed out.