Emotional Spending Quotes

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

People spend money when and where they feel good.

Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.

We're all weirdly single, middle-aged women with too much money who look to fill the void with too much shopping.

Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

Only buy things that make your heart sing. If I don't love it, I won't buy it.

Sometimes I go crazy - get into a mindspace where it doesn't matter what I spend. Like, on impulse, I might buy a $600 Dolce t-shirt, you know, just because it's silk and maybe there's some suede leather detailing. Or two of my favourite hoodies, I don't even know the brand, but they're' very thin soft cotton. $300 apiece!

You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your happiness, but after awhile the feeling goes away and you have to go to the next thing. You just keep going from purchase to purchase looking for the one thing that will finally satisfy. But stuff can't satisfy.

I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby

Jewelery is my weakness. Whenever I see any jewellery, I am unable to control myself. My daughters or somebody has to cool me down.

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.

Before I had my son, I became obsessed by this painting I'd seen in an art gallery. It was a lot of money, but I felt such a rush of adrenaline when I wrote the cheque to buy it. I thought I was going to gaze lovingly at it forever, but after just two weeks, I realised I didn't really like it any more.

There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.

It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.

I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.

It's not what you make, but how you feel about what you make and what you spend.

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

I think whatever you love the most is where you should spend your money.