How I Stopped Buying Things I Don T Need Analysis

A writer for The Huffington Post, Amanda Duberman, in her editorial opinion “How I Stopped Buying Things I Don’t Need”, suggests that ending a shopping addiction can be very hard to accomplish or confront and it can get in the way of your life. She supports her claim by first stating, “I was draining a modest bank account into an even more modest bedroom closet”, then he states, “A therapist once told me my “money issues” are really my “mommy issues.” I stopped by Urban Outfitters on the way home”, and finally once again “About 85 percent of America’s 15.1 million tons of textile waste ended up in landfills in 2013.” (Duberman). Duberman’s purpose is to inform shoppers in particular what negative effects overbuying clothes has to offer. The author definitely accepts that she has a problem and that it’ll take a long time before she can fully demolish her problem. As she began to realize her problem was interfering with he …show more content…
Her main problem is that she doesn’t like to return things and often times won’t wear new clothing before the return date expiration. She explains that she spends more time returning items she doesn’t like than actually picking out an outfit and checking it out. Therefore I agree that you can overbuy to a certain extent and it’s fine but once you find it difficult to even return an item for your money back than their seems to be a real problem. In essence, Duberman uses logical appeals to support that her problem seems to persist amongst the United States affecting others typically in a similar way. To summarize, overbuying can interfere with your lifestyle in a negative manner and can be very hard to overcome such a problem when you can’t find the root of your problem. Kids out there would wish to have even a sweater to keep warm in the winter and statistics show how wasteful some can be such as