Do you use shopping like a treatment?

I do use shopping as a treatment. In fact I am pretty sure I have a problem sadly to say. I get very frustrated with some situations I am in at home with my husband. I get so frustrated and go shopping. I am a stay at home of a 2 and 4 year old and I am also going to college online. ( I spend 99% of my time at home in a town where I don't know anyone) I have a very small budget that my husband allows....which doesn't completely cover my necessities....so when I am shopping for these items on credit, I get bored and I figure why not do a little splurging on wanted items which are usually for my children anyway? It just goes on and on from there!

Shopping plays a big part when I'm bored. When I am in that situation, all I need to do is hit the malls and browse over all the specialty shops and the nice thing about me is that I know how to control myself. I can go to a shop without buying anything... hahaha! Shopping doesn't necessarily mean SPENDING... there is also this thing called window shopping! :)

I do not use shopping as a treatment. I hate to spend money so I only go shopping when I absolutley have to. Like for groceries and such. If we need clothes I prefer to go to Goodwill or Salvation army first. For me if i went and spent a bunch of money shopping it woul;d just add to my stress not help me get over it.

Yes sometimes when I got some stress at work or something like that! I would go shopping and buy something nice, then I would feel better. But I don't now, I tend to indulge myself in DVDs so as to forget about everything else. And I think it's working. *smiles*.