i love going online and shopping at urbanoutfitters.com. i do it everyday i’m at work. i look for sales. i love the quality of the clothes. i’m obsessed and i wanna look just like the models on the site. i haven’t gone broke shopping on there, but i definetly spend more than i need and should.

how to break this shopping addiction?

My sister is addicted to shopping. Even she knows she is overspending, but she can’t seem to control the urge to own whatever she likes. I have no idea how to help her. The logic of ruining her credit doesn’t seem to have any effect. Can you offer any words of wisdom?

My mother in-law has a seriuos shopping addiction. She stays up all night watching home shopping club, she has literally hundreds of unopened boxes, and keeps on going. She has incurred over $75,000 in debt. Her husband is in a rest home and she has nobody to answer to. We try to offer suggestions or advice, but she only gets angry and feels we are trying to control her life. This greatly upsets my wife. Any advice would be sppreciated.

Everyone knows me as the shopping princess. My co-workers ask, “Whatcha buy today?” because I even shop online at work. Lately, I’ve been dreaming about shopping. It’s always set in the same magical, enchanted-looking mall, which is an exaggerated combination of the malls I frequented with my mom as a baby (it started at 2 weeks old) through adulthood (I’m 24). Do these dreams mean that it’s time to join Shoppers Anonymous?

If you have a shopping addiction, can it become bad enough that it leads you to stealing money from your work place so you have money to shop?