Pearl - The Female Shopping Addiction Is Endless

00:00:00.000 coming into store multiple days a week spending three four five hundred dollars a basket and then

00:00:06.600 coming back the next day and returning a lot of it and then buying new things what up guys welcome

00:00:12.300 to my reaction series in this series we watch women take l so feminism is giving women credit 1.00

00:00:17.380 cards and women basically cannot stop spending and what happens is while we're young and hot we 1.00

00:00:22.500 either get money through useless jobs or from men through like sex work sugar babying etc and the

00:00:29.660 entire economy is trying to take that money from us until we're used like used up you know we're 0.96

00:00:34.860 not hot anymore we're ugly we can no longer get resources so women are now complaining about 1.00

00:00:39.880 their shopping addictions which is going to keep the economy going i have a problem because i just

00:00:44.620 spent too much money on my hair and i was like you know that feeling when you're like you want

00:00:48.800 to learn to do stuff yourself as a woman um because all the maintenance stuff is just going

00:00:54.800 to keep getting more and more expensive but too much money on my hair that was like too much that

00:00:58.520 was crazy and you like kind of feel like a little bit bad and i did that her hair doesn't even look 1.00

00:01:02.900 that good you know and my immediate like instinctual reaction was like i have to buy

00:01:08.260 something else like so that i got something out of it to like make myself feel better because i

00:01:12.960 didn't want to be sad about spending too much money at starbucks too right there and there's

00:01:17.340 another one right there incredible so i was like okay i need to like buy an outfit to make it feel

00:01:23.460 worth it which it doesn't make sense i know because i'm spending more money like of course

00:01:27.280 it doesn't make any sense but that was like instinctual it was like okay i gotta buy something

00:01:31.520 like that's just it and i i had had this little outfit in mind that i hadn't been buying because

00:01:37.100 it was too expensive but what do i do i bought it to make myself feel better and now i've spent

00:01:41.020 100 more dollars like i need help i need some kind of help this is how i know i have a problem

00:01:46.340 because i just let's see you need a husband he would tell you to stop because i'm like should i

00:01:50.680 guilty about how much money i spent on shopping and buying myself things yes on a weekly basis

00:01:55.600 Hey, look at nails, boobs, Botox, three things right there. 0.99

00:01:59.960 Like on a weekly basis, I'm adding to cart.

00:02:03.880 And then I'm like, first light makeup.

00:02:05.420 So it's my money.

00:02:06.600 Maybe eyebrow tint.

00:02:08.060 So it's my money.

00:02:10.360 But second of all, I'm like, you know, most of my life,

00:02:13.980 especially when you grow up not having money and mainly anytime you ask for

00:02:18.960 something, it was no, we don't have enough money.

00:02:20.780 When you grow up like that and then you actually get a great job and can buy

00:02:24.440 herself things how do you expect one to act like i'm obviously not gonna sit here and be like no

00:02:29.660 i'm gonna still say no to myself when i've worked hard to make money but what really justifies it

00:02:35.040 for me even though i don't need to justify to anyone spend my own money but i just women we're 1.00

00:02:39.360 such bad people and deep down we know it and we do feel guilty but then we can't stop so it just

00:02:43.960 is a cycle i want to justify it to the internet is people tell me and i talk a lot to my 30 year

00:02:49.600 old friends about this. They're like, Oh, once you get to a stage in life, it's not really an

00:02:54.240 age thing or anything, but it's just like a stage. Everyone gets there differently. Some of my

00:02:57.820 friends are already there. Some aren't. They're like, you get tired of all that. You get tired

00:03:02.560 of being selfish. You get tired of spending all your money on yourself. You get tired of just

00:03:06.580 worrying about yourself. And that's usually when your eggs are dropping. And when do you want to

00:03:10.220 become a parent? And I was like, you know, in order for me to get tired of all of this, I need

00:03:16.960 to do it like in order for me to get tired of being so selfish and get tired of just caring for

00:03:22.880 myself and giving myself all my wants and needs is by giving myself all my wants and needs so by me

00:03:29.040 continuing to say yes to myself and I do feel this way over the past like year or two I have felt

00:03:34.800 myself getting a little bit slower and slower closer to the point of being like I could get

00:03:39.420 tired of this and like I could definitely see myself one day wanting to take care of someone 0.94

00:03:44.100 else and wanting to give my money no you won't you're gonna just be useless you're just gonna 0.93

00:03:49.060 pay for people to do things for you and you're gonna know nothing and tell me it's not normal 0.87

00:03:54.280 let's use an axe so she looks she looks more broke than the last girl but i'm still seeing like

00:03:59.700 skincare fake hair color that i scroll on the real real for hours and ebay and poshmark and

00:04:06.940 best year collective if single night like that's not normal am i okay so you're telling me it's

00:04:13.640 not all right let's use next yeah so you can kind of tell when people have shopping addictions

00:04:18.420 because they look like this you know anybody else have like a severe shopping addiction

00:04:22.560 like when i say severe like it's bad like your apartments will have a lot of useless stuff

00:04:28.480 12 billion step makeup and skincare routine i went to a therapist they would probably have a disorder 0.76

00:04:33.620 for this if i don't have an active email in my inbox stating a package is on the way or your

00:04:39.720 package has been ordered i literally feel lost i don't feel like myself i feel like other girls

00:04:46.000 have this so when the old women are crying about being in debt just know this was them young and

00:04:50.000 don't feel bad to have this issue it's like really bad my bank account doesn't like it but

00:04:54.600 does anybody else have like this one listen the harsh reality is a lot of you are addicted to

00:05:02.220 shopping like a lot of you have a major shopping addiction and i'm not talking in like a cutesy

00:05:08.940 like I love shopping. Shopping is my cardio. Oh my God. I can shop all the time. No, I'm talking

00:05:13.160 about actually coming into store multiple days a week, spending three, four, $500 a basket,

00:05:21.780 and then coming back the next day and returning a lot of it and then buying new things. The amount

00:05:28.680 of money I see people spending repeatedly day in and day out. Like we have a lot of regulars,

00:05:35.360 a lot of regulars some and all age ranges right i know that there is no way that some of you can

00:05:41.900 spend four five six hundred dollars a basket three four days a week yeah but here's the here's the

00:05:48.300 thing sugar it's sex work i i i know it's not possible and i go on this app and i scroll and

00:05:54.540 i see people like shopping like tj max hauls marshall hauls and don't get me wrong i'd be

00:05:59.200 doing my hauls i love shopping i'm a shopping girl too but what i'm saying is people shopping

00:06:04.240 and spending way outside of their means and just swiping different credit cards hey can you put

00:06:09.980 half on this card half on this card I'm gonna do a little bit of cash a little bit on this card

00:06:13.580 like shopping addiction I feel like is not really talked about in the way that some other addictions

00:06:18.960 are talked about like gambling drinking substance abuse you know sex addicts like I feel like

00:06:25.440 shopping addiction is really not talked about that way and it is like a harsh reality that a lot of

00:06:30.160 people deal with and i my eyes have really been opened to it working in retail and especially

00:06:35.100 working at sephora this amount of time i've worked at sephora the amount of people who consistently

00:06:40.960 come in and spend i'm telling you some regulars spend well over a thousand dollars a week well

00:06:47.840 over a thousand dollars a week and that's not even and then they were thousand bucks that's

00:06:52.340 crazy most of it then they return it then they buy new stuff then they return and then they buy

00:06:56.940 new stuff and then they do it's just like the constant never-ending like i have a friend whose

00:07:02.060 mom had a really bad shopping addiction and she will not she will not get into debt because she

00:07:08.440 would just like watch her mother spend money that they don't have and her her our and her dad would 1.00

00:07:15.380 have to pay for it i could tell immediately from a person when they're walking into the store most

00:07:20.140 of the time like oh they got like six returns and then they're about to exchange and buy another

00:07:24.280 additional $400 worth of product like the retail shopping edition is so crazy and the pricing of

00:07:30.640 stuff keeps getting higher and higher and it's not stopping anyone it's not stopping anyone from

00:07:35.980 shopping and it's actually insane I just helped two people who spent $800 this is why you got to

00:07:44.460 talk to people on the ground service workers see the most a piece on stuff that I know you don't

00:07:49.760 need and it's like it's it's so crazy and these two people I'm like okay I'll see you also in a

00:07:53.960 couple days i'll see you in a couple days like it's actually insane the shopping addiction is

00:07:59.740 so real and nobody wants to talk about it nobody's talking about it the shopping the returning

00:08:05.040 the yeah i mean that's what fuels feminism the whole society is you know basically selling 1.00

00:08:10.360 useless shit to women so anyways guys let me know what you think in the comments i love you thank 1.00

00:08:15.520 you so much for watching and do you know anyone with a shopping addiction if you do put in the 0.99

00:08:19.380 comments and I'll see you next time.

Pearl - February 26, 2026

The Female Shopping Addiction Is Endless

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