Women are almost jostling each other on the high street in order to spend yet more money on their credit cards to buy that latest fashion item.
30 years ago, we just shopped perhaps on a Saturday afternoon. However, nowadays modern women buy themselves that bit of happiness.
Women are more so occupied with the workplace. We make up 35% of the UK's full-time work force, 30% more than in 1985.
Our spending power has gone up 50% in the past 50 years. We wear new clothes, bought with our own earned money. We appear to get kicks from new things.
It's not just clothes shopping that has got us reaching for our credit cards . A recent report states that we spend 56% more on beauty and hair products and services than we did 10 years ago.
We are in a consumer frenzy. We can also shop now basically any time we like.
It is so tempting that a recent Alliance and Leicester study discovered that 31% of us state that we cannot afford to save, with two thirds of us admitting that we buy things that we do not need only because they are cheap.
Successful career women, with no mortgage nor children, spend money on pleasures, such as, spa treatments, beauty products and clothes without a consideration about their financial future.
We ought to be planning our pensions. However, many of us by pass this. We will all receive £5,000 a month when retired, however, that does not go far at all.
We squander our pension on fashion and beauty treatments, forgetting our old age. So next time you are shopping, ask yourself what have you saved for your old age.
