impulse buying is an unplanned decision to get something just before making the purchase.
This means that anything you buy, without thinking about it beforehand, is an impulse purchase.
It’s a problem that so many people have, and if you’re not careful, can REALLY mess up your money plans.
There are things that we buy on impulse that aren’t that damaging, for example when supermarkets have chocolate and gum in the check out aisles of their stores, but then there are other impulse buys that might become a problem, like getting pulled in by a 75% off sign in the window of a shoe store when you already have 3 pairs of perfectly wearable footwear.