How to deal with shopping anxiety this holiday season
BNN Bloomberg
When November hit, Sabina Wex started feeling anxious about buying gifts for the impending holiday season.
TORONTO -- When November hit, Sabina Wex started feeling anxious about buying gifts for the impending holiday season.
"With rising inflation, things just seem so much more expensive than they were before," said the 26-year-old owner of Sabina Wex Consulting, a public relations agency, in Toronto.
Since Wex's budget has expanded this past year to accommodate the rising costs of groceries, clothes and more, she's found it harder to prepare for holiday spending.
"I'm kind of in a weird place where I'm like, should I just spend the money I want to spend because the cost of living might only go up or should I be more careful about it this year," she said.
Wex noted that she's buying more gifts this year because her friends and family are finally vaccinated and more comfortable meeting in person for the holidays than they were last year.
"It puts a lot of pressure on making it a really great holiday season."
