Tamzin Merchant Quotes

I am a compulsive and concise shopper.

When you're shopping you forget about eating!

Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.

That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

The thing I like to do most is shop.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account!

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes. I always have been, since I was a kid. When I was young, I could never get the shoes I really wanted.

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

Honestly, my splurges happen at Target. I'll go and spend, like, $600, and I don't know why! And then I'm really happy about it, but then I'll be like, 'Why did I do that?!'

Bad shopping habits die hard.

I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same reason - I'm so lazy, I hate walking from shop to shop. Powder in Crouch End always has great designer labels in, so when I walk past I have to put my blinkers on because every time I nip in I come out with too much stuff; it's dangerous.

I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.

I don't want to tell you what to buy. I just want to help you think about why you're buying it.

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.

I like to shop. That's what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping.

I've been known to spend an afternoon on ASOS.com. There's just so much on there, and I can't stand not seeing all the new arrivals just in case I miss out.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

I'm no longer a shoeaholic, but I used to be. I used to spend all my time on tour either buying records or shoes.

I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'

If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.