Shopping sprees linked to periods
Women may be able to blame impulse buys and extravagant shopping on their time of the month, research suggests.
In the 10 days before their periods began women were more likely to go on a spending spree, a study found.
Psychologists believe shopping could be a way for premenstrual women to deal with the negative emotions created by their hormonal changes.
In other news, scientists have discovered that the global economic meltdown can be blamed on men with overdeveloped egos and tiny penises trying to deal with their secret inadequacies by pretending they're actually earning the obscene amounts of money they're paid for shuffling fake electronic money around, trashing the pension funds of people who actually have worked hard their whole lives, and tricking unsuspecting homebuyers into mortgages that would sink them.
Professor Karen Pine will present her work to a British Psychological Society meeting in Brighton later this week.
She asked 443 women aged 18 to 50 about their spending habits.
Almost two-thirds of the 153 women studied who were in the later stages of their menstrual cycle - known as the luteal phase - admitted they had bought something on an impulse and more than half said they had overspent by more than £25.
A handful of the women said they had overspent by more than £250.
And many felt remorse later.
Male banksters are responsible for losses of unknown billions, perhaps trillions. None have felt any remorse.
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