Sorry, can’t help asking
Internet shopping is like I battle it all the time
My husband working and my parents estates (although living) makes my life unusually easy
But I still obsess with what I can and cant have
I guess shopping isn’t classed as a big problem - but my multiple compulsive addictive personality rules my mind
Stupidly I could ruin everything
I have stopped buying things that would leave me broke for months (often returned to sender)
Is consumerism evil?
I have a slight obsession with clothes for the moment, wow… idk why clothes. I am in the need to look fine but I dont have the energy to look well though… strange… in my case, its a bit my illness who speaks when shopping 
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Don’t know if this counts, but I did my Christmas shopping already, and over spent.
I buy waaayyyyy too many books for no reason, I’m never gonna read them 
My new rule is read the free sample on kindle before buying
Last night I read the free sample of Jack Keruoac’s first novel and it wasn’t all that great. I mean it’s beautiful written, but not my type of book. So I beat the temptation to buy it!
Consumerism certainly isn’t going to go away. It’s a part of people’s sense of freedom that they can earn and purchase what they desire.
There is that niche of the perpetually in-debt and or shopaholics which is striking sign that the modern world isn’t truly compatible or good for all human beings. It’s a work in progress, just as we. Thankfully there are plenty of excuses around (and shoddy people who lack self-control) to justify at least portions of our bad habits.
Underneath it all is dissatisfaction and obsessive tendencies. There is a lot to value in the straight-edge view of life. Though you gotta have good resonance with life itself and that requires a lot of straight up ignorance and lack of concern for the issues with the world.
Even though I’m outside and away from cultural phenomenon and physical occurrences of crime and even social injustices. I still can’t help but look at them. My own compulsion, my obsession. It is rooted in the dissatisfaction of a world that isn’t considerate of it’s peoples. I HAVE been in situations that I was more or less blatantly wronged by others and they can’t be held accountable in anyway for those occurrences.
Anyways, if you are prone to buy things, keep to things with longevity. You’ll at least not be repurchasing things that you already have. Cyclical consumption can be avoided. Then you just end up amassing clothes and other oddities.
You seem uncomfortable with you spending habits though. That’s the number one sign that you should just buckle down and take a break from spending for a while. Analyze your needs and don’t go beyond them… that’s just my advice.
Good luck and take care. 
I can’t say consumerism is evil. Wanting to have things is something which motivates me to work everyday, and I think I feel better thanks to that. Ka’ching or sth.
Can’t imagine how big of a mess I’d be if I was. I’d be one obnoxious pan handler, good lord.
