From the course: Tips for Overcoming Bad Spending Habits

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Online shopping

Online shopping

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One of the things that makes online shopping conducive to overspending is they never close. Stores have hours of operation. Online shopping is available 24/7. That in itself, very simplistically opens the door to shopping more often because you can wake up out of a sleep 2 o'clock in the morning, grab your phone, a couple of mouse clicks or a couple of punches on there and you've bought something. Right. Now, you don't have to go pick it up. It's going to come delivered to your door. So online shopping has introduced yet another way of encouraging individuals to overspend. With online shopping, not only is it available 24 hours, but now there is a constant barrage of marketing efforts designed to encourage you to overspend. I bought something for my wife for the holiday. Right. And I won't shop there. You know, it's you know, for women's stuff. But every day, I was getting 2 to 3, sometimes four emails from this place. So I finally had to unsubscribe. One of the strategies to limit…

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