Sophie Ellis-Bextor Quotes

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Since I was 13, I've been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

How much of this junk shall we buy?

I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

I used to literally spend every dime I had on clothes, shoes and getting fresh.

I am a compulsive shopaholic.

I can't tell you how much money I waste on plaid shirts, whisky that I hate the taste of, and Moleskine notebooks that I never write in.

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

I want to know who is spending $1,000 on a sweater! That makes no sense!

Sometimes I can't stop myself from buying things just because I see them - even when I don't really need them.

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'm an electronics hoarder - I won't throw any out. I still have my first T-Mobile Sidekick... old VCRs in my garage. It scares me that I'm going to end up being buried under electronics.

I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my wife spends all my money.

Anybody who probably lives alone and they have three or four cars, that's probably somebody that's spending a lot of money that they don't need to.