Optimal Finance Daily · Thursday, September 3, 2026
To manage her shopping habit, Britt implemented a strategy of unfollowing brands on social media, unsubscribing from marketing emails, and deleting shopping apps like Amazon and Etsy. She found that reducing exposure to shopping triggers significantly changed her mindset and replaced her morning shopping impulse with reading and podcasts.
“The three most important things for dealing with my shopping habit were unfollow, unsubscribe, and delete.”
“I did a huge email and social media purge when I decided to get my shopping habit under control. For starters, I unfollowed all brands on social media, regardless of how much I loved them. I also unsubscribed from 99% of all marketing emails from brands. All the shopping apps on my phone, Amazon, Etsy, eBay, and so on were deleted.”
“It's amazing how much your mindset changes when you're not being constantly confronted with that kind of information or have one-touch access to the online shopping world.”