Yes, this trend is too common these days, regardless of gender and age group.
Nowadays.
There are too many distractions and enticing, advertisements that can make people go overboard on, their monthly budget.
I can personally relate to this, when I was struggling to make ends meet.
I got easily tempted to buy unnecessary household items from social media ads.
I Furthermore, I saw, I even bought two different sets of vacuum cleaners because the ads for both of them were quite convincing.