I’m not trying to be a pain and maybe you were being funny Vera but I don’t love labeling things like a “compulsive buyer” or always trying to see the connection to something negative in all things. At least not anymore. Some times people can just have some fun. Is buying a new car a compulsive buyer? Is eating a really nice meal and ordering a great desert a compulsive desert eater? Is a person that likes to surf everyday a compulsive surfer? I think we should be careful at labeling things. Reading that made me feel like you were saying I was doing something wrong for spending some of my hard earned money to buy something that makes me feel good.
Some one on here said that investing was like gambling and had this whole thing they had to say about it. Just want to throw out there that I pulled all money out of the stock market besides my Roth IRA’s about 4 weeks ago after I made a little. It’s all just sitting in a brokerage account and has been for this entire time. No stress in moving it or reinvesting it until the right time. Hence I haven’t done anything with it while researching the next stocks to buy when the time is right. Not everything has to be gambling or related to gambling always even though on the quick surface it may appear that way. Sometimes gambling is just gambling after time goes by and we have to put it to rest. It isn’t everything to me anymore.
