How to Help Your Inner Shopaholic
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How to Help Your Inner Shopaholic

The only way to not, is to not

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How to Help Your Inner Shopaholic

We’ve all been there, and if you aren’t there yet (or think you aren’t), chances are that you’re in over your head. Not to worry; I’m here to tell you how to take control of your life. Target, Forever 21 and Francesca’s aren’t playing fair with sending you daily emails of BOGO deals and free shipping – I mean come on, how could you pass up free shipping?! Here are some ways to deal with the monstrosity that you call your closet.

Unfollow all fashion blogs/Instagram boutiques/Pinterest/every reminder of upcoming seasonal fashion

Pinterest, Instagram boutiques, and fashion blogs are the reason most of us are shopaholics – thanks, Courtney Kerr. They remind us how inadequate our closets are and how much more we need to be fashion forward during the next season. Unfollow all the blogs, the boutiques; delete Pinterest (you can do it) and you’re one step farther from being an addict and one step closer to wearing last season’s clothes.

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Unsubscribe to ALL emails from your favorite stores

Your phone goes off. You look down and see that it wasn’t a text message but an email instead. You get a little irritated, but you open your phone anyway because you always have to have a clear mailbox. And then, you see it. You just received an email about Victoria’s Secret’s Semi-Annual sale, and all of your irritation is washed away with happiness. All you can think about is seven for $27 when you should be worried about how you’re going to get to class if you spend all your gas money. Click the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email and forget everything you just read. You’ll thank me when you aren’t hitchhiking.

Freeze your cards in a block of ice

Although it didn’t help Rebecca in "Confessions of a Shopaholic," freezing your debit cards, credit cards, gift cards and Target RedCard is the most fool proof way to curb your spending (unless you’re like me and have all of the numbers memorized…… don’t be like me). And only break the cards out of the ice when it’s time for a new formal dress – or two.

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Just say no

(To all offers of going to the mall.) Your friends are your greatest supporters, but they are also your biggest enablers. Just because you and your girlfriends are bored watching "Grey’s Anatomy" reruns, doesn’t mean the mall is the place to go spend your grocery money. Do something productive with your time: go for a walk on the nearest trail so that your Snapchat followers think you’re “into” nature when really that’s the first time you’ve put your new Nike tennis shoes to use – since you have 15 pairs.

Change the way you drive

Out of sight, out of mind. Right? Right. Use Siri for all she’s worth – which isn’t a lot. Make sure you change all of your driving routes so that Target or TJ Maxx or outlet malls don’t tempt you. Because those do your wallet dirty.

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Because let's face it, no matter how many new clothes you buy, your new Free People tank and Kendra Scott earrings will never beat your XL t-shirt and Nike shorts.

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