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'But I've already shown you every shoe in the store...'

DEFINITION: v. To purchase a bauble, article of clothing, or major appliance, in order to alleviate anxiety or other psychological stress. Often leads to overspending. n. An item which has been purchased to fill an emotional void.

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Overtistic

Created by: greengoddess

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Consumania

Created by: StephLeeY

Pronunciation: consum(e)mania

Sentence: Her overwhelming week caused her to relieve stress in the only way she knows how... by shopping consumaniaically at the mall.

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Anaesdebtic

Carla

Created by: Carla

Pronunciation: an-ess-det-ic

Sentence: Clare always shopped frenziedly after a coffee morning with 'the girls'. How they earned six figures, raised children, coordinated charitable fund-raisers, (and their outfits) without ever passing through puberty puzzled Clare. Could the hollow emptiness of her inadequacy be filled with shoes? Luckily, the anaesdebtic would soon kick in.

Etymology: anaesthetic + debt

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Spendacity

Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: spen da si ty

Sentence: He walked into Costco not knowing what he wanted, but only feeling the spendacity that he would find something to take the edge off the day.

Etymology: spend + mendacity (false); spending in the false hope that it will address the source of anxiety

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Retailaxation

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: re-tail-lax-a-tion

Sentence: Football Sunday was the best time for Joni to head to the mall for retailaxation, a.k.a. shop therapy. "When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping," she said as she grabbed her keys and purse.

Etymology: retail + relaxation

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COMMENTS:

Sale-a-brate those Sundays! - Nosila, 2009-08-18: 11:26:00

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Trinketfortreat

Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: trink-et-for-treat

Sentence: She stroked the vase with affection and immediately felt better. In spite of the lavish expense, this was genuine trinketfortreat

Etymology: a trinket for a treat

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Dyspursal

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: dis-PURSE-al

Sentence: Lenny dispersed all his life-savings with his chronic dyspursal, a downward spiral to bankruptcy

Etymology: dys (from dysfunctional) + purse (container for holding money) + dispersal (spreading widely)

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Nebeha

Created by: adbern

Pronunciation: Nebe-ha

Sentence: Girl, I've be thinking your nebeha

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Buyalogic

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: bye a loj ick

Sentence: When Tracy needed a morale boost, she went shopping. Any bargain she got was deemed buyalogic, as she could justify her need for the item. She needed these boosts quite often and ended up with closetfuls of clothes, shoes and accessories which had cheered her up at one time or another. Every 6 months, the Good Will people got bags of barely worn clothes from Tracy to fill the buyalogic needs of their clients. She believed in paying it forward...

Etymology: Buy (Purchase; obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction) & Logic (Thought process;reasoned judgment) and play on Biologic ( pertaining to biology or to life and living things)

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Cashquencher

Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: kash-kwench-er

Sentence: In her emotional state Rachel bought those heels as a total cashquencher.

Etymology: cash + quench

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