Shop Smarter With These 4 Expert-Approved Hacks

She Makes Money Moves is a new podcast from Glamour and iHeartRadio. Hosted by Glamour editor-in-chief Samantha Barry, the podcast shares intimate, unscripted stories from women across the country along with advice from financial experts to help guide those women—and women everywhere—forward. Download a new episode every Tuesday, then visit glamour.com/money for an article like this, with more insights from that week's expert.

Look, we're totally on board with shopping. If you've made room in your budget for a new pair of shoes, you shouldn't feel guilty about buying them. It's the splurges that you didn't plan for that are a problem: The book that you one-click-ordered when a stranger at a bar recommended it in the bathroom line. The bag that Instagram dropped in your feed as a #sponsored ad when you were mindlessly scrolling before bed.

The good news is even if you're prone to online shopping binges, you're probably not a compulsive shopper: Only about 6% of Americans display that behavior. But of that 6%, 80% are women.

Though the guest on the first episode of the podcast—"Confessions of a Real-Life Shopaholic"—was never diagnosed as a compulsive shopper, the signs were there: She bought things she didn’t need, even when she couldn’t afford them. She shopped impulsively. And she hid her habits. To help her—and any woman hoping to shop smarter—Barry welcomed to the podcast financial expert Farnoosh Torabi. Here she shares her best advice for resisting the urge to splurge.

Smash that unsubscribe button.

Avoid getting more emails that will encourage you to spend. Your web browser—as well as social media sites—are constantly sending you targeted ads based on your browser history—what you've been searching for or liking. Targeted ads can really trigger people to spend when they weren't planning to. So on top of targeted ads, you don't also need marketing emails from your favorite retailers enticing you to "add to cart." The next time you see one (or 20) in your inbox, go ahead and click unsubscribe.

Get off social media.

Stop scrolling the ’Gram: Instagram can be a wonderful source of inspiration, but it can also send you down a rabbit hole where you're looking at post after post of other people's wonderful, beautiful, filtered lives. It can leave you feeling less-than—and to fill that void, you might turn to a quick fix, which is buying something that you don't really need.

Use the 24-hour rule.

Put items in your cart and wait 24 hours to see whether you still want them. Studies show that distancing yourself from a purchase for a short while will lower dopamine levels, and you can make a more rational purchasing decision. You may realize you really don't need it—or even want it all that badly.

Be honest with yourself and others.

If you do struggle with compulsive shopping, let the people close to you know your struggles and enlist their help and encouragement. You need accountability to get through any of life's challenges, including this one.

According to a survey by Fidelity, the sponsor of She Makes Money Moves, 80% of women aren't talking about money with the people closest to them. Today Glamour invites you to the conversation: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts in the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you listen to podcasts, and join us, as we help women raise their voices and make money moves.

Originally Appeared on Glamour