Smart phone shopping has made it easier than ever to spend – but how is affecting our finances? Stylist investigates.      

Smart phone shopping has made it easier than ever to spend u2013 but how is affecting our finances? Stylist investigates.      

How shopping apps and social media are affecting our spending

No longer is online shopping a matter of googling a specific shop or painstakingly typing payment information into long forms. Now it can be done at the touch of a fingerprint 

Packages would arrive at the door and I’d have a complete mind blank about why they were there and when I’d bought them

Looking at apps every day and seeing people share fancy dinners, vacations and living in beautiful apartments makes you feel like you deserve that life too. But no one says how they pay for it

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Smartphone shopping has made it easier than ever to spend – but how is it affecting our finances?

“I’ll never get out of my overdraft”: how shopping apps and social media are influencing our spending