Shopping addictions are such a hard world to navigate especially when you add the extra layer of it being a part of your successful social media career 🤔 Do you think someone can reach a healthier place with shopping and a balanced place whilst also remaining a shopping account?
Whenever I see anyone excessively shopping on a regular basis, I cannot help but wonder what their plan for retirement is. I don't think they have one.
Don’t get me wrong, I am guilty of buying things I don’t really need just because they’re on sale. But I have NEVER purchased as many items as this person did in a single “haul.” It’s hard to imagine anyone being influenced when there’s such an abundance of items distracting you from any item in particular.
The buying from poshmark is also helping resellers, which is also an issue who will sell those hello kitty blankets for 10 to 20 times the cost. I am in the US and most people don't decorate for valentines day. that is so odd for me. These hauls give me anxiety. I buy what I use. If it doesn't fit in my designated area, then I don't buy or I replace. Shopping addiction is harmful. It is harmful to the person with the addition and their family. It causes debt and it also is showing their impressionable children how to behave. Buy buy buy buy and don't save.
Addiction doesn’t work that way! You can’t dip in and out of addiction and strong arming it also doesn’t work for addicts. There’s a common saying, “Once an addict Always an addict!” An extremely strong support system, years of therapy, and a deep dive into childhood trauma and a variety of cooping skills needs to be learned. Note: there is a difference between “over consumption” and addiction.
All humans are influenced by other people. It’s not something you’d be consciously aware of, so you wouldn’t necessarily know when and how other people are influencing you.
DONATE TO ANIMAL OR HUMAN SHELTERS!!! They need pillow and blankets and stuff all the time!!! HEAL THIS ADDICTION DONATING MOST STUFF TO WHO NEEDS THEM !!!
I think it’s everyday women who already have a shopping addiction. I have had a shopping addiction. I just loved the anticipation of getting something new. I am slowly healing from this. Lately I get chills when I see people over consuming, especially if it’s expensive items. Like they haven’t even got a chance to use the previous item and they are already onto the next. It’s extremely unhealthy regardless of how much money you make. Like where does it stop.
How big of a house must she have and how does she keep it all clean??? I have gotten rid of sooo much clutter the last four or five years, and it is so much easyer to keep tidy and clean. I had so many cleaning products, that i just had to buy my first cleaning product for the kitchen for five years, and i still have not bought for the bathroom and probably wont have to for the next 2 years. I dont like cleaning but like it clean, having less stuff makes it way easyer.❤
When my mom grew up, she was PISS POOR. Like didn’t have enough money to eat type poor. So when she raised me and my sisters, she was pretty frugal. I mean, I still got things that I wanted but usually knock off versions or thrifted options. It’s just interesting how we all have similar experiences like being denied toys or gadgets as a kid and how that affects us. Some become shopping addicts, some become cheapskates. I would say I’m pretty frugal but I will invest in things I see a lot of value in like tattoos and getting my hair done. I would NEVER spend money on a luxury bag or even spend more than $60 at Sephora. Not shaming anyone else’s behavior, just sharing my own. I feel like a lot of shopping addicts also have like a collector mindset or fumo mindset. They NEED something because they’ll never see it again or are jealous that other people have something that they don’t. It’s rooted in insecurity and never feeling good enough, like most addictions.
Weird observation, but I think it's worth sharing; I don't see a lot of large "permanent" or substantial pieces of storage furniture in her house. What I mean is like actual solid book shelves or cabinets secured to the walls and that sort of create "defined" zones of limited storage capacity that cannot be infinitely expanded. What I do see is lots of amazon clear storage "solutions" that can either be easily stacked on top of other objects or very small decorative shelves that are easy to stick on and remove from walls (the classic rolling clothes racks are important to note as well). I think these are important elements because notice how she invests a lot in "home décor" (do-dads, pillows, blankets, pictures to hang on the wall) but not actual foundational objects/furniture that "frame" and "define" what storage capacity she has and instead she owns/uses all these semi-permanent / temporary and modular forms of storage that can always be expanded or moved around to make room for other things. I think one way to really control the impulse to spend and fill your house is to have very defined spaces that are not transformative, temporary or modular; a shelf or cabinet that is permanently mounted to the wall and encompasses your maximum potential for storing a given category of object. The way her house is set up, with all the empty walls and "mobile" storage options, there's always space to shuffle and create space. I think if you literally have a set amount of shelving then that limits your ability to "bargain" with the quantity of stuff you are able to keep. If you have a rule that "this entire wall covered in shelving is all I have for books", and you are not allowed to just leave books on the floor, it defines your physical reality and shows how there is a physical limit to what can exist inside of your home.
Caitlin your videos makes me so calm and peaceful, Thank you so so so much for making such a wonderful beautiful videos for us and I will always be your big supportive🥹🥹♥️♥️♥️♥️
The influencers is part of the problem with 'haul'...... Imagine if influencers are 'shopping addict' with I guess with 'financial disposable' for it (you never know really), for someone non influencers without the money for it, it is very dangerous...
You mention the people around her. Her channel could be her family's income, so it's not in her husband's interest to stop her. Other family members probably get given a lot of her stuff, because all this consumption can't be just in her home, shed and storage locker or it would look like a landfill. So again, it's not in their interest to stop her.
When I was a child I was dreaming about transformers collection, but my mom couldn't afford it at all, as well as a skatebord. So I bought a scatebord at 32, but transformers... well I took one in a shop, but understood I'm not a 10 year old kid, and I returned it to the shop shelf. It depend whether you think twink twice and analyze your need of this or not. And yes I studied marketing at the university and I came across the idea that ads work really well with unadult people so to say and pretty much create a need not satisfy the need you really have
I had a bad shopping addiction that I maxed out 3 credit cards. I ended up settling my debts with a debt settlement company who consolidated 2 of my credit cards. Finally paid that off and paid off my 3rd credit card in full. Now when I want to shop I fill up the carts with whatever I want, close it out, come back after a day or 2 and talk myself out of what’s in there. Sometimes I can talk myself out of the whole cart and sometimes I just take a few things off that I truly don’t need. This was a great video though, it made me want to declutter my mess and all the stuff I have just laying around in my office. 😂
That’s exactly what I do too. I put items in my online cart, even when I’m in store I’ll open the app and add it to the cart, then a day or two later I go back when I’m calmer and really evaluate whether it’s something I need. It really helps cut down on the spending and the clutter. FOMO can be very persuasive.
I think we have lost the idea of what a collection is. I've always grown up with the understanding that you collect hard to find objects for a collection. The point was to love something and it be this huge thrill when you find that hard to get item to add to the collection. I think that feeling is lost (or mimicked, so not the real thing but close) if you can go to the store every week and easily get a new piece for the collection line. I think this Stanley cup and hello kitty "collection" is maybe just a shopping addiction in disguise. My collection is small frog figurines but my rule is "they have to find me" so no going somewhere with the intent to purchase them and they can absolutely not come from a chain store. It's gotta be a thrift store or some other weird place.
When i see people hoarding all this crap, I always think they must be depressed but instead of addressing the real issue so they are distracting themselves with shopping addiction. She could be saving or investing this money for her child.
The thing that bothers me so much about this topic is just how bad it is for the environment. I believe I read somewhere that the fashion industry contributes to 10% of global carbon emissions. That's bananas!
I don’t have social media (though I do watch RUclips) and I had to stop following content where products were pushed because influencers CAN be very convincing (even when you know it’s their JOB to push these products). Watching those TikTok clips with all of the “stuff” makes me feel sick 🤢 I have been trying really hard to make more thoughtful purchases and to shop less overall over the past year and I can’t imagine how much work it is to take care of all of that inventory 😅
Wanted to say I have been a long-time follower since your luxury handbag days and I have loved seeing you transition over the last couple of years! Despite loving luxe and being a consumer in general, I have always been super conscious about maintaining moderation in everything I own. Growing up in an immigrant household where my mom hoarded everything made me try my best not to overconsume because I didn't enjoy the clutter. Watching your channel when it was about luxury along with similar accounts allowed me to dream and educate myself on products that I would be willing to spend my hard-earned money on. So it's such a treat now whenever I buy myself a designer item because I put a lot of thought into it.
I love shopping, would say I'm on the verge of a shopping addiction but not there yet. However, I also get rid of a lot of stuff so when I watch these videos, I'm still baffled as to how people don't get overwhelmed from just having so so so much stuff.
Oh totally, especially with younger more in experienced people. Shopping is an addiction, and if your chasing that high all the time, its just a recipe for misery. Things will never give you lasting happiness, only connections and love will last forever.
I can't make it throught the full video and I like your channel. My anxiety's ramping up. Like you, I too had a small addiction...jewelery mostly. And took over a year to change my ways.
Trying to not shop for 30 days should probably involve incorporating alternative coping mechanisms that help with the cravings rather than just trying to not shop for 30 days
I grew up very poor. As a result, I always have cash in my wallet. Always. Usually less than $5. I was amazed to find out that so many people have no cash the day before payday. (This was pre debit card, credit cards, etc.) Even now, when even I rarely use cash now, will have cash in my wallet.
I have lots of t-shirts, artist's T-shirt collections always makes me feel like being one. I think I need a box for them, but I have only one reusable cup. Yes, I have something like 8 parfumes
I think modern day capitalism is to blame for shopping addiction 🤷♀ hauls are not a new thing, I think in 2010-s people were doing it too justifying it that it's "good for the economy"
I have ADD and a shopping addiction. The ADD makes it worse because your impulse control is worse. It takes a lot of therapy and self-awareness to try to get better self control. It’s a daily battle and an addiction which is so difficult because it has to do with something we never get to fully stop doing. We live in a consumerist world and figuring out the balance is a challenge
The overconsumption makes me so nervous for our environment 🙈. I know if l had that much pink stuff my husband would be concerned asking “Why we were living in a pepto bismol paradise?” 😂 so l know Brooke’s bf has probably said something. Also l agree with that last video those scents do NOT go together 😂 then she uses a scrub to just pour 20 different fragrances on her poor scratched skin 😱 her skin is the real mvp 😂
People are definitely misusing the word collector. These people seem unable to tell themselves no when they see an item which suggests the obsession is an addiction. I feel like people who are actual collectors are able to add to their collection without feeling like they have to have everything they see that relates to the collection. My sister collects Legos, but she doesn’t feel the need to buy every relevant LEGO set she sees, she’s able to wait until Christmas or her birthday when she has money to add to her collection. Also, I would argue most collectors have one main thing they collect, not many. I think if you’re “collecting” a bunch of different things, It’s a sign you have an addictive personality.
Brooke has a child. And I think about mann it's bad enough being a shopping addict but adding a child on to it.... that makes it worse cause then you're thinking "ooo my kid needs this" and "oooo my kid would love this!" so it's not just for yourself any more or for your home any more or just because it's also that child. I don't have kids but I am an aunt and I just want to spend spend spend and I have a best friend and we do a "best friend" day every year to celebrate our birthdays... yeah I will spend hundreds on her! I'm bad. And don't get me started on my HUSBAND! He's a gamer, so if you know you know. It's also like you said someone's trash is another person's treasure. Sometimes I see hauls of bags and I love bags but some of these bags are ugly and I don't get Stanley's. They are huge! And only 1 color! I love the Starbucks cherry blossom collection that comes out every year from Japan... If you look them up there are always different water bottles, tumblers and mugs.
This is insane. She must have a few nannies for her child, a full time house keeper, and personal assistants to keep up with this much STUFF. She could not manage all those things alone. My house with 3 kids has nowhere near the stuff she has bought and I always feel like I am on a hamster wheel daily trying to manage it all.
If you won't to recommend something to an audience, you just can go to a shop and shop what there is, new collections for example, you can find comments on these products and say them without buying these things
somone said she makes 6 figures from every brand deal, that's at least 100thousand , right? so she probably has or should have a lot of surplus income, but i don't think it's healthy, she can't last, bath and body works is not for back to school...I think it's too much pink fo rme also I see so many like items and for someone that has 1 wallet it's mind boggling. I don't know this lady but she doesn't need to go shopping she needs to go to therapy. I get it we didn't have money when I was young and I never got a scooter either haha or phone, laptop and what not, it was probably to early for those things anyway but the fomo or over compensating isn't the way to go in my opinion. I truly hope she can ease her buying, buying as a spur of the moment is fun, but then return it. that's what the People around MIcheal Jackson used to do, he would shop shop shop and they would return
She seems like to be more someone with ADD to me or something similar rather than vanilla shopping addiction because how she buys 15 of everything. I am not an OT or any kind of professional but I’ve 2 people in my life with ADD & they have similar behaviours (buying multiples of same items as well as how she speaks)…anywho even if she wasn’t it’s interesting to think if you were neurodivergent, how shopping content would affect you?
I meant I was addicted to shopping for a good while and I’ve been curving it back pretty well at times. Trust me, try to see so many Hot Topic or Ulta or other emails and I just say no to them. Heck, since I am packing to go and move in with family, I am glad that I have it went crazy and bought so many lounge fly bags like I had in the past at the moment. This person who is doing the shopaholic thing almost feels like they should be in the movie confessions of a shopaholic.
I meant I was addicted to shopping for a good while and I’ve been curving it back pretty well at times. Trust me, try to see so many Hot Topic or Ulta or other emails and I just say no to them. Heck, since I am packing to go and move in with family, I am glad that I have it went crazy and bought so many lounge fly bags like I had in the past at the moment. This person who is doing the shopaholic thing almost feels like they should be in the movie confessions of a shopaholic.
This was me when i was younger. I would go shopping as a "hobby" I just wanted my house to look like a store smh now that im older I can see it was a problem but being in it feels good.
I think she seems well on her way to becoming a full on hoarder. Soon if not already, she will just be drowning in things. I feel like there’s a connection with her childhood, being financially poor and now as an adult she’s finding comfort in buying all the things her inner child wanted but her family couldn’t afford. Hence all the pink and Hello Kitty!
That scooter story I can relate 😂😂 I'm buying my niece these cute toys for when she comes over to my house but really I'm enjoying them more than she does
The clutter would drive me wild. I just want to throw it all away and simplify 😓 This one is spot on. She’s absolutely addicted and I’m sure she gets joy from these collections of things.
Shopping addictions are such a hard world to navigate especially when you add the extra layer of it being a part of your successful social media career 🤔
Do you think someone can reach a healthier place with shopping and a balanced place whilst also remaining a shopping account?
The problem is that bad behavior is rewarded. I am personally a believer in debt-free living and minimalism.
Whenever I see anyone excessively shopping on a regular basis, I cannot help but wonder what their plan for retirement is. I don't think they have one.
Exactly!!!
it all looks cheap
9:03 Watching this caused me anxiety... and I know I'm not the only one.
the whole video gave me anxiety. it felt extremely suffocating
I briefly fell down the organization/shopping rabbit hole this year. I realized I could easily have a problem and got myself in check.
👏 👏 👏 Good job. ❤
Don’t get me wrong, I am guilty of buying things I don’t really need just because they’re on sale. But I have NEVER purchased as many items as this person did in a single “haul.” It’s hard to imagine anyone being influenced when there’s such an abundance of items distracting you from any item in particular.
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The buying from poshmark is also helping resellers, which is also an issue who will sell those hello kitty blankets for 10 to 20 times the cost. I am in the US and most people don't decorate for valentines day. that is so odd for me. These hauls give me anxiety. I buy what I use. If it doesn't fit in my designated area, then I don't buy or I replace.
Shopping addiction is harmful. It is harmful to the person with the addition and their family. It causes debt and it also is showing their impressionable children how to behave. Buy buy buy buy and don't save.
Addiction doesn’t work that way! You can’t dip in and out of addiction and strong arming it also doesn’t work for addicts. There’s a common saying, “Once an addict Always an addict!” An extremely strong support system, years of therapy, and a deep dive into childhood trauma and a variety of cooping skills needs to be learned.
Note: there is a difference between “over consumption” and addiction.
I adore shopping but noone is influencing me at all. I have my own taste. Hate influencers.
All humans are influenced by other people. It’s not something you’d be consciously aware of, so you wouldn’t necessarily know when and how other people are influencing you.
@@shiina29 maybe .....😬
DONATE TO ANIMAL OR HUMAN SHELTERS!!! They need pillow and blankets and stuff all the time!!! HEAL THIS ADDICTION DONATING MOST STUFF TO WHO NEEDS THEM !!!
Allow me to make a public announcement: Hygiene products are not home decor!
I think it’s everyday women who already have a shopping addiction. I have had a shopping addiction. I just loved the anticipation of getting something new. I am slowly healing from this. Lately I get chills when I see people over consuming, especially if it’s expensive items. Like they haven’t even got a chance to use the previous item and they are already onto the next. It’s extremely unhealthy regardless of how much money you make. Like where does it stop.
How big of a house must she have and how does she keep it all clean??? I have gotten rid of sooo much clutter the last four or five years, and it is so much easyer to keep tidy and clean. I had so many cleaning products, that i just had to buy my first cleaning product for the kitchen for five years, and i still have not bought for the bathroom and probably wont have to for the next 2 years. I dont like cleaning but like it clean, having less stuff makes it way easyer.❤
When my mom grew up, she was PISS POOR. Like didn’t have enough money to eat type poor. So when she raised me and my sisters, she was pretty frugal. I mean, I still got things that I wanted but usually knock off versions or thrifted options. It’s just interesting how we all have similar experiences like being denied toys or gadgets as a kid and how that affects us. Some become shopping addicts, some become cheapskates.
I would say I’m pretty frugal but I will invest in things I see a lot of value in like tattoos and getting my hair done. I would NEVER spend money on a luxury bag or even spend more than $60 at Sephora. Not shaming anyone else’s behavior, just sharing my own.
I feel like a lot of shopping addicts also have like a collector mindset or fumo mindset. They NEED something because they’ll never see it again or are jealous that other people have something that they don’t. It’s rooted in insecurity and never feeling good enough, like most addictions.
Weird observation, but I think it's worth sharing; I don't see a lot of large "permanent" or substantial pieces of storage furniture in her house. What I mean is like actual solid book shelves or cabinets secured to the walls and that sort of create "defined" zones of limited storage capacity that cannot be infinitely expanded. What I do see is lots of amazon clear storage "solutions" that can either be easily stacked on top of other objects or very small decorative shelves that are easy to stick on and remove from walls (the classic rolling clothes racks are important to note as well). I think these are important elements because notice how she invests a lot in "home décor" (do-dads, pillows, blankets, pictures to hang on the wall) but not actual foundational objects/furniture that "frame" and "define" what storage capacity she has and instead she owns/uses all these semi-permanent / temporary and modular forms of storage that can always be expanded or moved around to make room for other things.
I think one way to really control the impulse to spend and fill your house is to have very defined spaces that are not transformative, temporary or modular; a shelf or cabinet that is permanently mounted to the wall and encompasses your maximum potential for storing a given category of object. The way her house is set up, with all the empty walls and "mobile" storage options, there's always space to shuffle and create space. I think if you literally have a set amount of shelving then that limits your ability to "bargain" with the quantity of stuff you are able to keep. If you have a rule that "this entire wall covered in shelving is all I have for books", and you are not allowed to just leave books on the floor, it defines your physical reality and shows how there is a physical limit to what can exist inside of your home.
Caitlin your videos makes me so calm and peaceful, Thank you so so so much for making such a wonderful beautiful videos for us and I will always be your big supportive🥹🥹♥️♥️♥️♥️
it‘s called ‚tickle my fancy‘ 😀 maybe I misunderstood but I heard you say tickle my fanny and it made me laugh so hard. thank you for that 😂
Ad before this video "The new makeup...by Dolce & gabanna" 😂
The influencers is part of the problem with 'haul'...... Imagine if influencers are 'shopping addict' with I guess with 'financial disposable' for it (you never know really), for someone non influencers without the money for it, it is very dangerous...
You mention the people around her. Her channel could be her family's income, so it's not in her husband's interest to stop her. Other family members probably get given a lot of her stuff, because all this consumption can't be just in her home, shed and storage locker or it would look like a landfill. So again, it's not in their interest to stop her.
When I was a child I was dreaming about transformers collection, but my mom couldn't afford it at all, as well as a skatebord. So I bought a scatebord at 32, but transformers... well I took one in a shop, but understood I'm not a 10 year old kid, and I returned it to the shop shelf. It depend whether you think twink twice and analyze your need of this or not. And yes I studied marketing at the university and I came across the idea that ads work really well with unadult people so to say and pretty much create a need not satisfy the need you really have
I had a bad shopping addiction that I maxed out 3 credit cards. I ended up settling my debts with a debt settlement company who consolidated 2 of my credit cards. Finally paid that off and paid off my 3rd credit card in full. Now when I want to shop I fill up the carts with whatever I want, close it out, come back after a day or 2 and talk myself out of what’s in there. Sometimes I can talk myself out of the whole cart and sometimes I just take a few things off that I truly don’t need. This was a great video though, it made me want to declutter my mess and all the stuff I have just laying around in my office. 😂
That’s exactly what I do too. I put items in my online cart, even when I’m in store I’ll open the app and add it to the cart, then a day or two later I go back when I’m calmer and really evaluate whether it’s something I need. It really helps cut down on the spending and the clutter. FOMO can be very persuasive.
I think we have lost the idea of what a collection is. I've always grown up with the understanding that you collect hard to find objects for a collection. The point was to love something and it be this huge thrill when you find that hard to get item to add to the collection. I think that feeling is lost (or mimicked, so not the real thing but close) if you can go to the store every week and easily get a new piece for the collection line. I think this Stanley cup and hello kitty "collection" is maybe just a shopping addiction in disguise. My collection is small frog figurines but my rule is "they have to find me" so no going somewhere with the intent to purchase them and they can absolutely not come from a chain store. It's gotta be a thrift store or some other weird place.
I love that, that’s such an interesting way to go about a collection. I totally agree!
When i see people hoarding all this crap, I always think they must be depressed but instead of addressing the real issue so they are distracting themselves with shopping addiction. She could be saving or investing this money for her child.
Or for her own mental health
The thing that bothers me so much about this topic is just how bad it is for the environment. I believe I read somewhere that the fashion industry contributes to 10% of global carbon emissions. That's bananas!
I don’t have social media (though I do watch RUclips) and I had to stop following content where products were pushed because influencers CAN be very convincing (even when you know it’s their JOB to push these products). Watching those TikTok clips with all of the “stuff” makes me feel sick 🤢 I have been trying really hard to make more thoughtful purchases and to shop less overall over the past year and I can’t imagine how much work it is to take care of all of that inventory 😅
Wanted to say I have been a long-time follower since your luxury handbag days and I have loved seeing you transition over the last couple of years! Despite loving luxe and being a consumer in general, I have always been super conscious about maintaining moderation in everything I own. Growing up in an immigrant household where my mom hoarded everything made me try my best not to overconsume because I didn't enjoy the clutter. Watching your channel when it was about luxury along with similar accounts allowed me to dream and educate myself on products that I would be willing to spend my hard-earned money on. So it's such a treat now whenever I buy myself a designer item because I put a lot of thought into it.
I love shopping, would say I'm on the verge of a shopping addiction but not there yet. However, I also get rid of a lot of stuff so when I watch these videos, I'm still baffled as to how people don't get overwhelmed from just having so so so much stuff.
Oh totally, especially with younger more in experienced people.
Shopping is an addiction, and if your chasing that high all the time, its just a recipe for misery.
Things will never give you lasting happiness, only connections and love will last forever.
Love your videos. I'm a minimalist, I don't like clutter and hoarding.
Same
I feel that makes you appreciate what you have more and makes you less anxious because you aren't surrounded by stuff.
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Collecting body wash?! lol that’s wild overconsumption
This chick is Literally turning their home INTO a store.
Also...
$#!+ expires people! She can't possibly use all that perfume before it starts to go bad.
I’m curious to see what her retirement and investment accounts look like 👀
I can't make it throught the full video and I like your channel. My anxiety's ramping up. Like you, I too had a small addiction...jewelery mostly. And took over a year to change my ways.
This is glamorized hoarding 😔
Still here from the beginning of it all! Love you and I am so beyond proud of you! Xoxoxo
Trying to not shop for 30 days should probably involve incorporating alternative coping mechanisms that help with the cravings rather than just trying to not shop for 30 days
Mental health and also too much privilege… maybe some real
Crisis and restraint would be good for our societies … maybe …
I'm getting chlostrophobia looking at her home and it's reminding me of my mother whose a hoarder.
I grew up very poor. As a result, I always have cash in my wallet. Always. Usually less than $5. I was amazed to find out that so many people have no cash the day before payday. (This was pre debit card, credit cards, etc.) Even now, when even I rarely use cash now, will have cash in my wallet.
I have lots of t-shirts, artist's T-shirt collections always makes me feel like being one. I think I need a box for them, but I have only one reusable cup. Yes, I have something like 8 parfumes
So I don't understand influencers. Don't you get to 'write off' anything you buy as it's for your business?
I think modern day capitalism is to blame for shopping addiction 🤷♀ hauls are not a new thing, I think in 2010-s people were doing it too justifying it that it's "good for the economy"
Did she just say she was going to buy a couch for all her pillows?
And I should speak for myself since I love buying perfume, and that seems to be the item that I buy the most.
I feel like so many people need art in their lives! They need a creative outlet!
I have ADD and a shopping addiction. The ADD makes it worse because your impulse control is worse. It takes a lot of therapy and self-awareness to try to get better self control. It’s a daily battle and an addiction which is so difficult because it has to do with something we never get to fully stop doing. We live in a consumerist world and figuring out the balance is a challenge
You are not being mean! B this girl has a problem.
The overconsumption makes me so nervous for our environment 🙈. I know if l had that much pink stuff my husband would be concerned asking “Why we were living in a pepto bismol paradise?” 😂 so l know Brooke’s bf has probably said something. Also l agree with that last video those scents do NOT go together 😂 then she uses a scrub to just pour 20 different fragrances on her poor scratched skin 😱 her skin is the real mvp 😂
I’m speechless. It’s just a strange world we live in where people get to monetize their bad habits and mental illnesses. Chaos always gets rewarded
I’m glad she has a good relationship with her stepmom.
People are definitely misusing the word collector. These people seem unable to tell themselves no when they see an item which suggests the obsession is an addiction. I feel like people who are actual collectors are able to add to their collection without feeling like they have to have everything they see that relates to the collection. My sister collects Legos, but she doesn’t feel the need to buy every relevant LEGO set she sees, she’s able to wait until Christmas or her birthday when she has money to add to her collection. Also, I would argue most collectors have one main thing they collect, not many. I think if you’re “collecting” a bunch of different things, It’s a sign you have an addictive personality.
Brooke has a child. And I think about mann it's bad enough being a shopping addict but adding a child on to it.... that makes it worse cause then you're thinking "ooo my kid needs this" and "oooo my kid would love this!" so it's not just for yourself any more or for your home any more or just because it's also that child. I don't have kids but I am an aunt and I just want to spend spend spend and I have a best friend and we do a
"best friend" day every year to celebrate our birthdays... yeah I will spend hundreds on her! I'm bad. And don't get me started on my HUSBAND! He's a gamer, so if you know you know. It's also like you said someone's trash is another person's treasure. Sometimes I see hauls of bags and I love bags but some of these bags are ugly and I don't get Stanley's. They are huge! And only 1 color! I love the Starbucks cherry blossom collection that comes out every year from Japan... If you look them up there are always different water bottles, tumblers and mugs.
The toxic febreeze 🤢
This is insane. She must have a few nannies for her child, a full time house keeper, and personal assistants to keep up with this much STUFF. She could not manage all those things alone. My house with 3 kids has nowhere near the stuff she has bought and I always feel like I am on a hamster wheel daily trying to manage it all.
Watching all of these items being “organized” is giving me a headache. I hope she can overcome this addiction.
If you won't to recommend something to an audience, you just can go to a shop and shop what there is, new collections for example, you can find comments on these products and say them without buying these things
somone said she makes 6 figures from every brand deal, that's at least 100thousand , right? so she probably has or should have a lot of surplus income, but i don't think it's healthy, she can't last, bath and body works is not for back to school...I think it's too much pink fo rme also I see so many like items and for someone that has 1 wallet it's mind boggling. I don't know this lady but she doesn't need to go shopping she needs to go to therapy. I get it we didn't have money when I was young and I never got a scooter either haha or phone, laptop and what not, it was probably to early for those things anyway but the fomo or over compensating isn't the way to go in my opinion. I truly hope she can ease her buying, buying as a spur of the moment is fun, but then return it. that's what the People around MIcheal Jackson used to do, he would shop shop shop and they would return
She seems like to be more someone with ADD to me or something similar rather than vanilla shopping addiction because how she buys 15 of everything. I am not an OT or any kind of professional but I’ve 2 people in my life with ADD & they have similar behaviours (buying multiples of same items as well as how she speaks)…anywho even if she wasn’t it’s interesting to think if you were neurodivergent, how shopping content would affect you?
Yeah this is not healthy.
I meant I was addicted to shopping for a good while and I’ve been curving it back pretty well at times. Trust me, try to see so many Hot Topic or Ulta or other emails and I just say no to them. Heck, since I am packing to go and move in with family, I am glad that I have it went crazy and bought so many lounge fly bags like I had in the past at the moment. This person who is doing the shopaholic thing almost feels like they should be in the movie confessions of a shopaholic.
I meant I was addicted to shopping for a good while and I’ve been curving it back pretty well at times. Trust me, try to see so many Hot Topic or Ulta or other emails and I just say no to them. Heck, since I am packing to go and move in with family, I am glad that I have it went crazy and bought so many lounge fly bags like I had in the past at the moment. This person who is doing the shopaholic thing almost feels like they should be in the movie confessions of a shopaholic.
This was me when i was younger. I would go shopping as a "hobby" I just wanted my house to look like a store smh now that im older I can see it was a problem but being in it feels good.
Neatly displayed, I'll give her that, but she has what could be mistaken for a STORE, not a personal supply.😢
I think she seems well on her way to becoming a full on hoarder. Soon if not already, she will just be drowning in things.
I feel like there’s a connection with her childhood, being financially poor and now as an adult she’s finding comfort in buying all the things her inner child wanted but her family couldn’t afford. Hence all the pink and Hello Kitty!
That scooter story I can relate 😂😂 I'm buying my niece these cute toys for when she comes over to my house but really I'm enjoying them more than she does
I love your videos!
I'm just thinking that's a lot of stuff to dust!😂😂😂😂😂
Yep. 😄🤣😄😅
The clutter would drive me wild. I just want to throw it all away and simplify 😓
This one is spot on. She’s absolutely addicted and I’m sure she gets joy from these collections of things.