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3. We buy new things to signify transition<br />
To prepare ourselves for new experiences, we<br />
purchase the necessary items. If you’re anxious about<br />
moving away to college, you decorate your new dorm<br />
to feel like home.<br />
Shopping for a baby gets you in the diaper frame of<br />
mind and ready for your baby’s arrival. A new outfit for<br />
a date boosts your self-image. Through our purchases,<br />
we mentally ready ourselves for what lies ahead.<br />
6. It distracts you from failure<br />
Failing sucks. Shopping eases the pain. When you<br />
underperform on a test, instead of reaching for the booze,<br />
you reach for the shoes. As winter creeps in and you<br />
become lazier, shopping is your new cardio. Stuff can’t<br />
replace success, but it sure does ease the blow of losing.<br />
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Everyone has days where they need to spoil themselves<br />
every once in a while. Just don’t make it an everyday<br />
thing that is a completely different topic. Just shop when<br />
you need an uplift it helps and is lots of fun.<br />
4. It’s some good ‘ol me time<br />
Shopping is 97 percent of humanity’s favorite hobby,<br />
(I hear Putin really loves his fur hats). You can spend<br />
time with yourself and your money and focus on the<br />
things we are told shouldn’t really matter.<br />
Retail therapy is a release and it’s fun. Not to sound<br />
like a vapid person, but looking at beautiful things<br />
makes you feel beautiful by association. Just look at<br />
Winona Ryder. She got too close.<br />
5. It’s actually science<br />
Researchers at the University of Michigan Ross<br />
Business School (Go Blue!) found that both the<br />
shopping experience and the choices we make while<br />
we fill our carts help relieve residual sadness.<br />
Good news for shopaholics everywhere, going to<br />
Bloomingdale’s and buying a ton of trendy items will,<br />
in fact, cheer you up! (It’s probably like, 1,000 times<br />
that happiness when you find a coveted over-theknee<br />
boot at a warehouse sample sale.) Even if<br />
you’re a dad whose shopping habits extend as far as<br />
gloves on sale at Costco, you still get the little tingly<br />
feeling inside.<br />
WHY SHOPPING IS GOOD FOR YOU - BY TIFFANIE MORA<br />
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