My spending problem...

So anyone who knows me probably knows i am a shopaholic (i have no idea if that word actually works here) anyways i will tell you about me. Whenever i like something i buy a lot of it. Like i cant not just have one of an item that i like i have to have multiples of that item. I think my earliest recollection of my spending obsession started with buying pencils. When i was in primary school i bought a lot of pencils, lie whenever i saw a pencil i had to buy it. (i have out grown but well it has evolved.)

Then when my obsession with pencils died i started buying a lot of pens, (i still is there but not as bad as it used to be) at any given point i probably had like 100 pens and i would still buy more. Then my obsession went towards buying novels i currently own maybe 200 novels? 300? it would have been more but some borrowers wanted to become owners. From there i got an obsession with cds and then with cd players and then to makeup and now hair products. I am obsessed with buying hair products (oh somewhere in my buying history there should go electronics). I just like spending money in general. I get a thrill when i spend money and i dont have to buy anything in particular which is evident from my multiples. I think i just prefer to be broke if truth be told. Because there is simply no logical reason to buy items that you already have. Like seriously you can only write with one pen at a time why do you need 100? (i dont currently have 100 pens right now though just so you know). Being clever i have come up with reasons to justify to my boyfriend why its absolutely necessary for me to have more than one of the same item. (he doesnt buy it but he lets me think that he does).

Although i find it funny (at times) i think its important for me to get a handle on this because it is a real problem. I know what i can do to prevent over buying like for example i could leave my money home and only take what i need to last through the day but my urges to spend money triumphs over my common sense. Hopefully i will be able to do something about it soon cause this really isnt worth it.