MJTV: Are You A Shopaholic?
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00:00All right, we have a definition now of shop-aholic.
00:05Now, we've all heard the term shop-aholic.
00:07What is a shop-aholic?
00:09It's someone who's addicted to shopping, the same way a gambler might be addicted to gambling.
00:13They get the rush.
00:14That's a decent answer, absolutely.
00:16But there is a couple of particular things, and one that really stood out for me,
00:21and I thought maybe we'd grab some phone calls on this to see if you've done this
00:26and if you qualify, new criteria, so these are researchers that have come up with new criteria
00:33to determine if somebody is a shop-aholic, if they have a compulsive buying shopping disorder.
00:41That's more the technical term, compulsive buying shopping disorder, shop-aholic.
00:47So what is one of the top things that would qualify you as a shop-aholic?
00:53If you get a really crazy rush after you make a purchase.
00:59I can see that, but one of the big giveaways, this is like number one, you're a shop-aholic.
01:08If you buy stuff you just don't need.
01:12Is that because you think you're getting a deal or you're compulsive?
01:18I mean, there's different degrees of this.
01:20There is.
01:21If you buy things you like that you don't need, like I don't need extra shirts,
01:25but I buy shirts every time I see one.
01:26Let me give you the details here, but I want to grab some phones.
01:30I'd like to ask our listeners, what is something that you purchased recently or, you know,
01:35maybe in the last year, something or things that you bought you just don't need?
01:41Be honest.
01:41If you want to stay anonymous, if you don't want to be honest,
01:44but if you don't want to use your name, you can stay anonymous.
01:46I'd like to hear from listeners right now.
01:50What have you purchased that you just don't need?
01:54Do you have an issue with buying stuff that you just don't really need?
01:59All right.
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02:02800-990-1047.
02:06Isn't what you need relative to different people?
02:08Like, I literally just got off the phone with my wife who was bitching my face off because I spent $300 on race cars on sim racing.
02:17And to me, that's important.
02:20I need those tracks and those cars.
02:23I'm sure you do.
02:23I think this is...
02:24Or what is it?
02:25That's a hobby of yours, so it's something that you do require or that you use for your hobby.
02:30I'm talking about people that buy things that they really just don't need.
02:35They just buy it to buy it and have it.
02:37Like the hot dog toaster I bought my dad.
02:38They never opened it.
02:39They're not going to use it.
02:40All right.
02:41800-990-1047.
02:43Buzz us up.
02:45Tell us what you purchased recently that you just have no use for.
02:49You don't need.
02:49Why did you buy it?
02:51You bought it because maybe you got a compulsive shopping issue.
02:53Is there a difference between shopaholics and then hoarders?
02:56I think hoarders would buy stuff more than they don't need.
02:59Hoarders is trash.
03:00See, I think hoarding is different than being a shopaholic.
03:03Anyway, the experts conclude a key feature of shopping addiction is buying items without ever using them for their intended purpose.
03:10Another characteristic of a shopaholic or shopping disorder is when people use shopping as a feel-good mechanism to relieve negative emotions.
03:21So people that get like an endorphin rush or suddenly they feel better if they go out and buy stuff.
03:28It's a nice dopamine fix when you get a whole bunch of shoes that you don't ever have.
03:32Is endorphin the wrong?
03:34Is dopamine?
03:35Are they both good answers?
03:37They're both good answers.
03:38They're not the same thing, but they're both good answers.
03:40All right.
03:41What's the difference?
03:42Well, dopamine, I think.
03:44Dopamine is when you're a dope froggy.
03:45I was just kidding.
03:46I don't really want to know.
03:48Do you know the answer, Roxanne?
03:49I don't.
03:50Endorphins, I usually think of when you get a high from running.
03:53Running high.
03:54Yeah, runner's high.
03:54And so shopaholic could get those.
03:56And then dopamine is like those.
03:58You can get dopamine even from eating some carbohydrates.
04:00Let's go to phones on this.
04:01Look at this.
04:02Phones are loaded.
04:03Every line.
04:05Wendy is in Spring Hill.
04:06Hello, Wendy.
04:07You're on the MJ Morning Show.
04:09What have you purchased that you just don't need?
04:12At least it wasn't one of my normal big purchases.
04:15But recently, like yesterday, I just bought in the dollar store those little wind catchers,
04:21I call them.
04:22And I literally have maybe a quarter of an inch of yard space where I'm at.
04:27And you bought wind catchers and you don't need them?
04:31Yeah, I bought four of them.
04:33So, Wendy, why do you buy them if you don't need them?
04:37Because they were pretty and they caught my eye.
04:39Plus, you know, I just, I've always, literally, before the term shopaholic was even a term,
04:46that was my thing.
04:47I actually studied it in my family.
04:50Because it runs along the same lines of alcoholism and drug addiction.
04:54Wait a minute.
04:55Wow, it's a disease now.
04:56So, alcoholism does run in the family and or alcohol abuse.
05:01So, you're saying that you think shopaholicism also runs in the family?
05:05It's genetic?
05:07Literally, there is a, I did a study on this when I was in college.
05:11There is a gene in your body that makes you hurt to, you have to.
05:15It's the buy crap, you don't need gene.
05:17Well, pretty much, yeah.
05:20Because, I mean, when I was, when I was a kid, I would go, I couldn't, I cannot walk
05:24out of a store without having something in my hand.
05:26Even if it's not what I'm looking for.
05:28Oh, that's a problem.
05:29I can't walk out of a store without buying something.
05:30Who did it?
05:31You married?
05:31Wow.
05:32Did your mom or your dad do that?
05:35No, they were, I had, my, my, my, I had, alcoholism runs big in my family, but I don't
05:40like to taste the alcohol.
05:41So.
05:43So, you're going to shopaholicism.
05:44Hey, Wendy, great call.
05:45Thank you very much.
05:46I appreciate it.
05:47Let's grab Jennifer in Tampa.
05:49Jennifer, you're on the MJ Morning Show.
05:51What have you purchased that you just don't need?
05:54Okay, I'm glad this is somewhat anonymous because it was a Bob Ross toaster.
05:58Oh, my God, that's awesome.
05:59Wait a minute, they sell a Bob Ross painter, the Pretty Little Clouds toaster?
06:04Yeah, and it imprints his face onto the toast.
06:07Oh, with the big fro?
06:11Yeah, I've seen that.
06:11Yes, yes.
06:12And I bought it because my husband's an artist, and we just always tease him with Bob Ross stuff.
06:18So, I'm not my other way shopaholic, but that is definitely.
06:21Fester's showing me a picture of the Bob Ross toaster.
06:23I didn't know this existed.
06:25This is amazing.
06:27What?
06:29You don't need it, but you have to have it now, right?
06:31Oh, my God.
06:32You have to have it.
06:33Thank you, Jennifer.
06:33I appreciate it.
06:34For people who like Bob Ross stuff, you can have a Bob Ross anything.
06:38You can have one of his, a wig like his hair.
06:40Yeah.
06:40You can have toasters.
06:42You can have paint collections.
06:43Bob Ross socks, mugs.
06:45Jay in Tampa.
06:46Jay, what have you purchased that you just don't need?
06:51Hello?
06:51Jay is listening to the radio.
06:53Hey, let me put Jay on hold.
06:54Jay, Jay, you there?
06:57Jay's on.
06:58Let me grab another one.
06:59Let me grab Carolyn and Lakeland.
07:01Carolyn, you're on the MJ Morning Show.
07:03Hi.
07:04So, I have a very huge addiction to buying fabric.
07:09I buy fabric.
07:11If I see something I like and I want to make a quilt out of it, I will buy fabric and stockpile it.
07:16My husband calls me a fabric hoarder.
07:18It is just what I do.
07:20And, you know, this.
07:21How much for, I mean, does your home look like a Joanne's fabric place?
07:25I have a closet that I kind of, and I have drawers that I, you know, I will bring them home, wash them, and then I fold them nice, and I get them in, put, like, colors together.
07:35I've got a fabric collection.
07:36I was going to ask you to name your kids, Michael and Joanne.
07:40Hey, Carolyn, thanks for the call.
07:42All right, Jay's back.
07:43All right, Jay, quickly, what do you buy you just don't need?
07:46I'm addicted to car audio.
07:48Speakers, tweeters, subgroupers, amplifier.
07:51Well, hey, the more equipment you have to listen to the MJ Morning Show on.
07:56So, how much money in car stereo equipment do you have that you don't need?
08:01At least 800 bucks sitting at home in the garage.
08:05Did it start?
08:06Did that fascination start, like, in 1990, 91?
08:10Yeah, back in the day.
08:11It's an old hobby.
08:12I got 27 Alpine cassette decks from my car.
08:17Cassette decks.
08:19Those are totally...