My wife is addicted to buying stuff. I don’t know how much more of this I can take.

Firstly, just to add a little background, we have a 7 month old baby girl and just bought a house in July of this year. We were previously living in an apartment. While I know it’s tempting to buy things for a new house and a new baby, I feel like we are just going overboard with it. To add on to this, I finally watched the show Hoarders for the first time this weekend and it was a real eye opener. It made me realize that we are on that path. <br><br>My wife is a stay at home mom and I work a job that requires me to travel 60-70% of the time. I don’t like it, but it is what it is. I’ve been doing it for 5 years. I am (was) saving to retire early. If my wife’s spending habits don’t stop, I will have to delay early retirement by a few years.<br><br>She has a habit of going to thrift stores and buying whatever catches her eye. We end up keeping some of the items and taking the rest to the consignment store. I don’t have a problem with this in theory, but it feels like every time I come home from a trip, the house is overflowing with more stuff. It feels like I am drowning and she doesn’t see anything wrong with it. <br><br>She has really started pushing back lately on my minimalist mindset. In fact, she feels I am the one who has a problem. She recently called me a psychopath for throwing away the packaging from our baby’s toys. I just don’t get it. <br><br>I love her and she is a great mom, but she is really pissing me off with this constant accumulation of stuff. I feel like she is ruining my dream of a peaceful house. We recently had a fight and she just said I don’t have to buy the stuff I don’t like and that it is no big deal. I’m at a loss for what to do here. Do I just ignore her and continue to live in a cluttered house? I don’t feel like I have a choice.