This is my experience too. As far as shopping, I normally don't like to, so even wanting to shop is an indicator, lol! There are others of course, but that is where overspending starts after all. In order to recognize the signs, I looked back to a (pre-dx) long Ebay spree I went on, because it had it all... In technicolor. Somewhat surprisingly, I actually was able to remember some of my thought patterns from the time. Probably not all, but definitely enough that when I "hear" them, I know what I'm dealing with. And actually resist pretty well(!) It's thinking of all the money I could have had if the Ebay thing never happened, and the vision of the most hideous dress ever (scary, and so very very not "me" in every way possible) that at the time, I just had to have --it was so beautiful! I don't want to repeat of that!

Some other things I have a much harder time recognizing as hypo when hypo, but the shopping thing? Nope. Got that one down cold.