Niche trends fueled by social media can influence your shopping decisions. Rasure recommends using your financial values as a guiding principle for your spending decisions. To add barriers, you can remove your credit card details from your computer browser or social media and disable Apple Pay on your phone. Engage with trends with moderationIt can be OK to engage with trends if they bring you positive feelings, Rasure said. “Trends and engaging them, engaging in them really should spark that happiness or contentment, not the debt that can go with them,” Rasure said.