5 Tips to help you stop impulse buying

We've all been there. You're shopping and see something completely unrelated to what you need to buy. You want it. No, you need it. So you swipe your credit card, but a month later the regret of impulse shopping arrives when the bill does.

It's easy to get carried away and buy something you don't need. And stores - whether online or brick-and-mortar - are designed to separate you from your money.

"Impulsive shopping is all about seeing something and creating this very spontaneous, unmindful, unreflective urge," said Mousumi Bose Godbole, professor of marketing at Fairfield University. "Impulse shopping is a lot about a lack of self-control and not having enough self-regulating resources."