Are you suffering from Compulsive Buying??

How often you buy things with compulsive mode and felt sorry about your decision at later stage? We know few are almost regular suppliers for sites like OLX 🙂 But buying unnecessary things and selling it online is what is called best finance??

Few people have tendency to buy things unnecessarily and they just waiting for right reasons to shop. All because to ease their stress. Yes they shop to ease their stress. Such syndrome or mental behavior called as “Compulsive Buying or Spending“. Such behavior is very much exists in families or society where materialistic things have more importance.

What are the symptoms?

People who suffer from such mental disorder usually have an irresistible urge to buy things at any cost, whether they are useful to them or not. It is exactly like other disorders such as eating, watching TV or some other syndromes. This buying is actually a few minutes of satisfaction. But after that they feel disappointed and just eager to hide their wrong doings by being a seller at few online portals.

It was defined by Kellett and Bolton as “is experienced as an irresistible–uncontrollable urge, resulting in excessive, expensive and time-consuming retail activity [that is] typically prompted by negative affectivity” and results in “gross social, personal and/or financial difficulties”.

What causes them to buy?

As I said above such disorder visible with people or society where everything is measured with kind of electronic gadgets you have, which branded dress you wear, where you have your weekend dinner or which automobile you have (whether it is car or bike). This is nothing but showing your status to others that YOU TOO CAN AFFORD SUCH COSTLY THINGS 🙂

How to control it?

Follow your older generations 🙂 Yes that is the solution to this behavior. You might have noticed that our parents or grand parents never had anything personal items by taking loan. They simply accumulated the cash required for that particular item then they bought it. This process have two solution. One is, by giving enough time to buy the item you yourself start to think whether it is necessary or not. Second thing, you will not be in reeling under credit card or personal loans.

You noticed that such buying usually happens when you not use your conscious. So start using it for every rupee you spend. Apart from the above said technique, I have listed few which I feel will be helpful to come out of such disorder.

• Always pay your bills with cash or debt card but not with Credit Cards or post dated cheques.
• Before going for shopping list the things which you plan to buy and stick to it.
• Retain one credit card which you can use for emergency. Cancel or destroy the rest of the cards.
• Never heed or excite for discount sale or offer.
• Don’t watch shopping TV Channels or not browse online shopping sites too often. Visit when necessary.
• Use delay tactics before buying. For example if you see any item to choose and about to buy then wait for a hours or days. This makes you to think whether it is actually in need or not.

View this below video which explains more about such disorder.