impulse buying
noun1
Usually The act of making unplanned or otherwise spontaneous purchases.
- Often one partner is prone to impulse buyings, plunges the couple deeply into debt without evaluating their capability to pay, and in the eyes of the other partner, is generally "irresponsible" from a fiscal standpoint.1976, A. L. Gary, John A. Glover, Eye color, sex, and children's behavior, page 155:
- Related terms
- impulse buyer, impulse good, panic buying