Its been six months since the day Erins husband stopped talking to her.
She laughs when she mentions the seven days of the silent treatment, a distinctly Midwestern shrug that makes its way along Iowa phone lines. The laugh seems intended to reframe her tribulations and make them feel manageable, but it was the very unmanageability of her social media-fueled compulsive shopping habits, and the debt that they accrued, that led her to turn to her husband for support. Instead, he offered silence.
Erin who, like the other shoppers I spoke to for this piece, asked to be referred to by a pseudonym to speak openly about her finances says she is accustomed to carrying some credit card debt, usually on retailer credit cards she opens to take a…
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