Do you enjoy stores, clothing, shoes, wallets, sunglasses, swiping your credit card? If you answered YES to any of these questions, or just yes, then you are possibly a shopaholic! Being a shopaholic is not a bad thing.  A true identifier of a true shopaholic is when you’re on a first name basis with a store clerk or your FedEx delivery man!

There is no bigger rush then getting to the register at a store and swiping your credit card.  And in that moment you are waiting for the screen to say, “Approved” you start to get heart palpitations and you get a rush of adrenaline.  By the time she is handing your stuff to you, you are so high on adrenaline, the $15,000 total does not even phase you until you’ve gotten home and seen the receipts.

The pros to being a shopaholic are, you get insane in-store discounts, invited to sample sales, you always look nice, and your credit card rewards program account is always full! The con is well your bank account is never as full as your rewards account.

Being a confessed shopaholic of many years now, I have got a closet that is bursting at the seams and a pile of shoes that would rival a Beverly Hills housewives collection in terms of size.  While getting discounts at numerous high-end retail locations and even getting invited to many sample sales for high-end retailers, it takes a lot of energy.

I am not one of those shoppers that can make an entire day out of shopping, I like to get as much accomplished as fast as possible.  That way you do not have a lull in the adrenaline rushes, and you are not lugging around bags all day long, or in some cases while you wait for your driver to pull around so you can load some bags and then go back and resume shopping.

A last few ways one might be considered a shopaholic is if you are out shopping more than once or twice a week, you can spend well over $10,000 in less than 30 minutes, or if you have a TV show based upon you shopping abilites.  At any of those last few points you may want to stop and re-evaluate.