1) Tell someone you trust about your spending habits.
Tell them in detail; admit how much you have spent shopping in the past six months, how much credit card debt you have, and just how far you have fallen from being a responsible spender.
2) Listen to what’s going through your mind when you’re faced with temptation.
Ask yourself what lies you may be telling yourself.
3) Find other ways to fill your time.
Schedule activities to fill the time to fill the time that you would usually find yourself shopping. Activities like playing softball, joining a book club, taking cooking classes, maybe going to the gym, anything.
4) Bring a buddy.
When you do shop, don’t shop alone.
5) Stop and think.
Before you buy something stop and ask yourself if you will still love it and not be able to live without it in six months.
6) Set spending goals for yourself.
When you find something that you really want but you can’t afford it, save up for it instead of wasting your money on frivolous things.
7) Find the joy in exercising self control.
The excitement of anticipating a healthy shopping trip is much more rewarding than draining your wallet every week just to get a fix immediately