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Judging by the amount of clothes at second hand stores in the US, its mostly middle class women
I have a shopaholic aunt who is said to wear things she buys once on avg. She could open her own 2nd hand shop (or if she moved her stock to Europe she could open ~6 2nd-hand shops). Many women in my family are inflicted with this disease to varying degrees. It’s a gender-specific disease that I think men are immune to.
Men are not immune to it, but it is less common
looks at $150 Warhammer model next time buddy, I'll grab a paint pot on my way out, and maybe a brush, hmm I need better sprue cutters...
Wow that's wasteful
It's called, "not addressing my personal issues," aka "retail therapy." It's not gender specific, it's common and manifests in multiple ways.