Compulsive Spending Quotes

We're all weirdly single, middle-aged women with too much money who look to fill the void with too much shopping.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.

I'm a danger to myself and others in expensive, designer shops, as they send me giddy with excitement, causing me to snap up all manner of silly things.

I have a horrible habit of buying merch tees. I go on people's websites and look at all their merch because I'm interested in it, because we sell merch, too. And then, I always end up buying something.

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

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends.

At times, I can be a slave to money.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

I'm a shopaholic. I really am. I can't help myself. I do go into, browse, and purchase from my own shops, too, although the CEOs who run my businesses wish I didn't.

When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even particularly want. What I craved was the purchase, not the thing itself. Of course, a sense of not being deprived may fill an emotional void without ruinous consequences.

I used to have an online-shopping problem.

I love every single As Seen on TV product. I can't help myself.

I'm addicted to online shopping.

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

There's always one character, I think, in every town who's the obsessive who steals money to go and buy records.