Precarious Spending: What Shopping under the Influence Reveals about our Inner Selves, or Doesn’t

Alexandra Szczupak
5 min readMay 12, 2023

We all have our drunk purchasing habits. For some it’s living room furniture sets for their domestic house cats, while others prefer Nicholas Cage commemorative dish ware, or for others it’s Flaming Hot Cheetos pajama sets. For a period of my life, it was lingerie.

When I think of lingerie, I imagine it as an implement to be used in the bedroom of a committed partnership. You know, a fun way to break up the monotony of the day-in-day-out grind of partnered bliss…

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