![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps more importantly, I was bored with myself and I couldn’t find another way out of the life I was living. Like many others at that time, I was bored of sitting at home in the same clothes. By the time I hit my shopping peak, it was late 2021. It became hugely popular about a year into the pandemic, with millennials and Gen Z reporting that they were spending $1,016 more per month in 2021 than they were in the summer prior. I didn’t realize that I was revenge shopping - a term that explains the way people spend compulsively on less-than-necessary consumer goods to make up for lost time after a period of being denied the opportunity to shop. The precariously stacked boxes from Amazon, the Gap, Williams Sonoma, and direct-to-consumer brands I had found on TikTok threatened to fall over, though that didn’t stop me from adding another to the top when a new supposedly life-changing package arrived at my doorstep. The pile of recycling in the corner of my kitchen was taller than the counter at some points in the month.
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