Caution, shopaholics

 

Buy me, try me, take me home, feel me, touch me, taste me. You'll love me... A wide range of suggestions face us with a lot of information: shape, smell, feeling, different parametres of a product, but first of all, the assurance of buying. Paying by cash or via credit card - in the case of money, I'd say change. You give the required amount and get a product or whatever - for those commodities which you might not use or wear in the future.

It's a pleasant feeling to spend money, I can surely assure, on anything. Why? There might be -probably there are - psychological and physical reasons and theories to this deed. And I'm sure that I'm not the first person who tries to get the sense of this phenomenon.

Doesn't it feel good when you're down and you buy a bar of chocolate? I think it does. And when you would  feel like crying aloud because you're missing someone you love or lost or buying a bunch of flowers for your mother on Mother's Day? The lattest is a special occasion, though, so I don't want to talk about this, but about the usual weekdays, on which you can 'freely' commit a sin or more. In connection with Mother's Day,I wanted to say that you express your love towards your mother, grandmother and that kind of shopping is not the sinful one. I mean, the shopping itself has a reason while the addiction-like doesn't necessary have to have any.

It is calimed that shopping is a therapy. For almost everything. For happiness, joy, disappointment, sadness, sorrow, embarassment or just because. The fact and the moment of buying makes the soul 'feel' different, like happy, proud. Even if you only bought a packet of chewing gum, some crisps or a nicely-flavoured shower gel after a heavy day. There's a kind of saying in Hungarian and I'm trying to translate it into English. It'd sound like: Men are likely to pay double amount of money for things they need, but women tend to spend less money on things which aren't actually useful...It is a cliché but true, I reckon.

All in all, shopping can be a cure. So be careful, it's like a drug, and it can turn fast into addiction: the more you spend, the more you want next time - especially in the case of clothing, shoes - in order to be more satisfied, of course... In the end, don't forget to have a look at your money, because if you run out of it, then it can simply ruin the dreams... And your life.