Define Retail Therapy Meaning

an excuse for people mostly female to go shopping when they're feeling bad, when in reality their bad feelings could be released/treated in other ways.

Intensive shopping for nothing in particular than can lead to large credit card bills and inevitably immense debt or loss of property.

the act of getting rid of stress by shopping

shopping with the purpose of boosting one's mood

The act of shopping as an outlet for frustration and a reliever of stress.

A costly replacement for Zoloft.

it really works! when a girl is bummed out about something, she can go shopping and it makes her feel so so much better

1. An idiot's way of dealing with an idiotic problem.

2, One of the most moronic notions bestowed upon humankind that simply buying some frivolous mass-produced good can alleviate one's mood or take away a bad feeling caused by a REAL problem, when in fact buying some random product will do nothing about the actual problem but MAY induce an hour's worth of distraction which is enough for people who have the attention span and memory of a chipmunk.