The initial quarantine period of COVID when it first hit in 2020 was one entire weak moment for me that lasted months. I think it was really just boredom.

Within 30 days of my birthday/Christmas, everything is "Oh! Just a little something for me!" Drunk shopping is definitely dangerous, as is buying anything when you're feeling depressed. 

The lethal combination is buzzed + winter. Then I will spend way too much money on something that you could only wear in warm weather during a fancy occasion. I have SO many nice dresses I bought during COVID that I still haven't worn, it's ridiculous. 

Oh also, the sephora check-out line! THE MINIS ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO PASS UP! 

I am really big into online shopping, but I really have my shopping carts with items  I will never buy on about 7 different websites because I can't seem to pull the trigger. But where shopping really gets me... is the grocery store. I know that sounds weird because everyone needs to grocery shop. But literally, I love to go to the grocery store. I love to buy artisan jams, fluffy bread, go to a butcher, fancy cheese. I live for that. 

when i'm at a Trader Joe's  and i've stuffed all the necessary things in my cart, oh boy i'm always tempted by the amazing displays they have going on at the store 

Probably when I pay my bills for that check and buy my food then realize I have a few buxxx left over and also if I go somewhere far from my house and I know I wont be over there that way for a while. 

Right before I go to bed. I don’t know what it is about the pre-bed doom-scrolling, but I will be sold by any IG ad.

Also, definitely on vacations. I tell myself they’re memories. 

When traveling and almost anytime I go into DSW!

Agreed on airports. I have this weird thing where I need to buy a smartwater before every flight. A full liter. Just call me Jennifer Anniston in the sky baby. 

Not exactly a question of IF i should buy something, but more... WHERE/WHEN. Online shopping is dangerous, don't get me wrong. (Give me a Prezzy Day Sale and I'm mush)... but for me, if I'm at the airport with 25 mins before boarding, I'm raiding a Hudson News bookstand like it's Ocean's Eleven. 

Other contenders: When I'm drunk / post brunch, when I feel skinny that day, when I am on vacation shopping with a friend and need to buy "something small" at every store we stop into and thus can't return it because I don't live there, and at Costco. (Don't have a backyard, but the backyard furniture looks GREAT.) 

When are you most susceptible to buy something you don't need?