7/31/11
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Bricks-and-mortar stores
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Emotions
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Leisure shopping
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Materialism
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Meet the Man Who Invented Shopping as We Know It Today
I adore shopping. It’s something I’ve taught myself to do and I’m not ashamed to say I’ve become good at it. But these days whenever I enter yet another gleaming retail temple, I’m always painfully aware of the labour that’s gone into creating the goods that are now presented in upmarket...
7/27/11
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Budget shopping
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frugality
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Materialism
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money
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Waiting
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11 positive money beliefs that can help you save
Sometimes it’s the things in our psyche we don’t acknowledge that have the most power over us. Once we’ve taken them out, dusted them off and held them up to the light, they lose their ability to sabotage our lives.
In my last blog entry I listed a set of negative beliefs about money...
7/25/11
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frugality
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Materialism
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money
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overspending
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Are Any of These Negative Beliefs about Money Holding You Back?
I’ve got a confession to make – I used to be a spendthrift. Basically that meant that I spent whatever I had. This seemed natural to me, an unwritten law: money was there to buy stuff, not to be saved. I’m ashamed to say that during my school years I even distrusted school friends who...
7/21/11
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Internet shopping
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Mindfulness
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Online retail
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How to Stay Calm When Shopping Online!
Shopping online, or just browsing, is great fun. But because it is so convenient, it’s all too easy to fall into a delicious trance from which you wake hours later, having bought up the entire stock of Heavenly Homewares or Car Accessories R Us! Below are some useful tips for staying...
7/18/11
Labels:
Bargains
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Bricks-and-mortar stores
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Budget shopping
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Secondhand goods
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Great tips for successful op and thrift shopping
Now that July is here, chances are you’re either stuck in the middle of a freezing cold winter or enjoying (or enduring) a sizzling summer. Op shopping (thrift shopping) is great fun whether in the dead of winter, boiling hot weather or anything in between. The tips below...
7/11/11
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Budget shopping
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Fashion
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Secondhand goods
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Wanted – An Annie Hall for the 2000s
In the last few years a new look that combines 1980s and 90s female fashion and preppy 1920s male style has been dancing around the edges of the fashion world while failing to completely make it into the mainstream.
Its central elements are loose, man-style pants, waistcoats,...
7/5/11
Labels:
Decision making
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Fashion
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Swapping
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Buried Treasure, Hidden Duds – What Lurks in Your Wardrobe?
Think of the clothes and accessories in your wardrobe. Chances are there’s at least one item that you probably shouldn’t have bought and will never wear again.
But chances are there is also a hidden treasure lurking at the back of a drawer or cupboard, or, in my case, at the bottom...
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