The Financial Confessions · The Financial Diet
How One Woman Escaped Our Mindless Shopping Culture
December 4, 2023·1 hr 12 min·5 clips
Paige Pritchard spent her entire $60,000 salary and couldn't even afford to move out of her parents' house.
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A look at overspending as a personal habit shaped by consumer culture.
This episode treats overspending as more than a private habit and shows how it can turn into a wider cultural pattern. It is especially effective when it connects pantry aesthetics, social-media compulsion, and the many ways people explain away another purchase, letting consumer…
Why you'd press play
When your shopping cart feels like a coping strategy.
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