The problem with Retail Therapy | Overcoming Overconsumption
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Ever feel like you can't stop shopping? Or you are constantly influenced to buy things you don't need and it's cluttering up your space and your life? This video is my own little rant about how shopping makes me feel, and why I want to break ties with overconsumption.
I would love to hear your thoughts on this and hear about your own experience.
If you're currently embarking on a no buy year/challenge, or are about to, check out my No Buy & Mindful Shopping playlist here : • NO BUY YEAR 2023-24
Chapters in this Video:
00:00 Is Retail Therapy a lie?
01:30 consuming less
04:03 set shopping guidelines
04:50 changing your core beliefs
06:42 shopping second hand / used
09:23 we're wasting our money
09:46 swap & borrow
10:30 declutter better
12:09 recap
12:38 dealing with emotional shopping
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How I’m feeling 7 months into my no buy year!
Retail Therapy is such a marketing stunt. It's like getting a few glasses of wine because you're feeling bad and then calling it Alcohol Therapy. Let's just call it what it is: an addiction. And just like any other addiction, we need to deal with our main reason for shopping.
Such a good way of looking at it. Although plenty of people do drink alcohol to feel better and don’t think that’s an issue at all. Anything done to avoid facing our issues head on is never healthy. Xx
A wardrobe app has been helpful for me to realise how many options I actually have.
Yes so so helpful!! X
as someone who gets inspired by clothes and dressing, i think it is not absolutely necessary to have a capsule wardrobe or declutter if you really dont want to. what i do, is have a core set of clothes i can wear with ease, and then when i want to wear something else or try new things, i have my other clothes to try to experiment. i appreciate the hell out of all of my clothes, get them repaired or altered to fit my style and shape, and really love the options i have.
also, i've stopped getting rid of clothes unless it was 100% necessary (size, taste etc) because I noticed my taste changes but instead of purging and rebuying, i just go through my storage every 6 months and feel inspired again - like im shopping my own stash.
I agree with what you said about decluttering. I’m the same, my style fluctuates so I love store things away and pull them out later. I feel like what you said about having a “core set of clothes” to me would be a capsule wardrobe, but just in a way that works for you. I don’t think there’s a one size fits all approach to a capsule wardrobe xx
You are so right about switching to second hand if you want to wean off of spending. I've burned up most of my clothing money for the year and it's only May! I've started spending my time at thrift stores. Not that they're super cheap ($9 for a shirt) but at least they're cheaper than mall stores.
Absolutely! It depends what brands you’re buying and stores you shop in but definitely still cheaper than the same brands new. You can also be lucky in charity shops and find they don’t price designer items as high as they could, sometimes not recognizing the quality of the brand. Not sure if thrift stores are the same where you are x
Hi Gemma, I find your videos very valuable. I agree with all you said today and I am on a low buy myself. Minimalism journey is tough only at the beginning, but then it becomes very liberating. I downsized my wardrobe to around 50 pieces and I enjoy the lack of decision fatigue while getting dressed. Of course now and then the itch to shop returns, but I alow myself to think longer before making a purchase. Decluttering made my head ever so light, leaving space for things that really matter.
Hey lovely! Awh I’m so glad, thank you for saying. Isn’t it such a joy to have less decision fatigue everyday!! I think it’s normal to have some shopping urges, especially in a world full of marketing and it’s also sometimes just nice to treat yourself to something new xx
Retail bandaid, I *love* that. It’s more descriptive and accurate than retail therapy.
Very valuable advice. It takes time (it took me years to improve my habits and still working on it!), but it does work! It's not easy but it's really worth the effort.
Absolutely!! Maybe always a work in progress 😊
"Retail therapy" is like "Girl Math," just a tongue in cheek way of excusing an action
Yea so true!!!
Hi, I’m new here. I just subscribed. I make decluttering videos and I’ve finally started to stop overshopping. Finger crossed it’ll last. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Thank you so much!! That’s amazing!! ♥️
So so true! Rant away any time 😂
Haha thank you, I might just do that 😂
I've always understood the phrase 'retail therapy' as being almost ironic. I can't believe people truly believe that it's somehow going to fix anything! It was probably coined by a man whose wife was miserable and shopping was the only thing that made her happy (temporarily). Do people seriously believe retail therapy isn't ironic?????????
I guess some people use it a bit more light-heartedly, not necessarily thinking it’ll help anything but make them feel momentarily better. I guess it does in the moment with a dopamine rush, but not so much long term. To me I feel like it just makes me feel worse cos I end up piling on the shopping guilt onto whatever I was trying to “feel better” from x
Has anyone ever told you that you look like Winona Ryder? Beautiful.
They have actuallly, once or twice. I think I have a face that looks like a lot of different people 🤪
Why can’t we “overconsume” if we feel like it?! Don’t preach,
@@silkbuttons because it’s ruining the planet 🫠
I'm unsure if an influencer has ever done a video about the history of shopping throughout,say the last 100 years. I find it funny that at one point in time we (here I'm choosing lower to middle class ppl, which used to be the majority of society) only owned what we could afford, and I'm guessing about half the amount of what the avg woman owns now, and those clothes were very well made. Now consumerism (at it's worst) represents so many things like social tagging, therapy, boredom, essentially it has become rooted in psychological dysfunction. I am so glad society is waking up to this, in part due to influencers like you. 🪻
I would love to watch a video about that myself! I’m reading Fashionopolis at the moment and it speaks about how fast fashion came about and the Industrial Revolution. Makes me pretty mad to think that someone one day decided to make things cheap so we would have to constantly keep buying new. Maybe a video for the future when I read up on it some more. Xx