Vampire shoppers Flashcards
insomniac
someone who can’t sleep easily.
how do feel about shopping? Mooching around a shopping mall from one shop to another, spending money - it’s my idea of hell!
vampire shopping – this term refers to shopping late at night - traditionally a time when vampires appear.
Most of us are asleep at this time but sleep-deprived parents, shift-workers and gamers might not be. If you’re an insomniac, it’s tempting to open up your laptop and start shopping.
to get sucked into something
not being able to stop yourself getting involved with something that you don’t want to do.
Online shops are open 24 hours a day so it’s easy to get sucked in and do some shopping! When you get sucked into something it means you can’t stop yourself getting involved with something that you didn’t want to do. So what you’re saying Neil is at night, when we’re very tired, we don’t always think straight and can make some bad decisions.
sleep deprived
not having enough sleep.
Our ability to control our impulse to spend and to resist things like advertising is reduced when we’re sleep deprived.
resist the urge
to stop yourself acting on a strong feeling to do something.
Our ability to control our impulse to spend and to resist things like advertising is reduced when we’re sleep deprived. Well mental health problems can have a similar effect so the mental health problems themselves make it harder to resist the urge to spend and they also cause sleep deprivation, so you’re alone possibly surfing the internet, and both the lack of sleep and the mental health problems make it harder to resist the things that you can see.
feel-good factor
doing something that gives someone a happy and positive feeling.
I suppose buying things at night, if you’re alone, gives you some comfort - even a feel-good factor, I certainly feel good when I’ve bought something. But Rob, have you ever bought something you regret?
regret
sad feeling you get when you’ve made a mistake and wished you hadn’t made the mistake in the first place.
We found in our research that 75% of people, so regardless of whether you’ve got a mental health problem or not - three-quarters of people didn’t send back the last thing they bought online that they regretted. We found that 4 in 10 people with mental health problems didn’t send things back because they were so ashamed of the things that they were buying that they just wanted to pretend it never happened.
she says that three-quarters of people didn’t send back the last thing they bought that they regretted. Maybe they were too embarrassed?
