Jim DeMint Quotes

I honestly don't know how many pairs of shoes I have - about 100 in use. It sounds so bad. I splurge when I work hard.

I have a bag and shoe addiction. If I were a doctor or a lawyer, I'd still have it.

You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

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.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

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.

Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.

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

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

I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

I shop more than most women.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

I'm addicted to the deal, to the next thing. It's irresistible.

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

I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.

In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Americans have spent their way to happiness.

The impulse to spend seizes everyone. He who, the whole year through has taken pleasure is saving and piling up his money suddenly becomes extravagant. A stream of presents pours itself out on all sides.

We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

Wherever I go, I buy shoes.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.