Does Online Shopping Cause People To Spend More Money?

  Does online shopping encourage more spending?  Absolutely!  More money is spent online due to the sheer convenience of it.  While a specific store might be out of the way, the internet is just so convenient it is almost impossible to resist.  All you have to do is log on to a store's website and you are set. You do not even have to go to a store to pick up selected items, you just have to have them shipped to your house, for an extra fee of course.  But, you really do not even have to go online with the purpose of shopping.  All it takes is one advertisement and you are in.

  You were not going to buy that fifty dollar skirt, but you logged on the internet and there was that irresistible advertisement.  So, you go the website for the skirt, and what do you see?  A perfect pair of hundred dollar heels to go with the skirt.  This process seems to continue until you have an online cart full of blouses, dresses, skirts, and shoes.  How did this happen, you may ask yourself, unwilling to empty that thousand dollar cart?  It was all because the internet was right there, you opened, got sucked in.  

  While a similar situation can happen in a real store, it happens much more frequently on the internet since we are online so frequently.  Frequency of these online shopping adventures is not the only money taker.  We also spend a ton of money on shipping just for the convenience.  Why go to a store when you can have items shipped right to your front door?

  While I really do enjoy online shopping, I believe it is a very dangerous activity.  You can lose a lot of money in only a little time.  Online shopping does cause more spending.