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Mind the sale.

Started by Daniel Gibbons · 9 months ago

I was shopping once and watched a woman holding up a dress for her man to check out. “What do you think honey?” she asked. “It’s ugly, babe,” he answered. “Yeah, but it’s 50% off!” She defended. “Yeah,” he ... Continue reading »

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  • Shopping sensually also keeps a shopper out of icky and discouraging places - well, it keeps me out of them, anyway. I find that I only shop in certain places when I'm already depressed! They don't even sound mildly interesting if I'm not already feeling rotten.

    The other thing I think it does is stop a person from calling hoarding by the wrong name of "frugality" and substitutes the creating of a beautiful life with the filling of an empty one - with junky stuff that make you feel like you "deserve" or can find virtue in ugliness.

    Do we think money buys style? Labels mark the items that will stamp the owner with social status? Or that a "good deal" means purchasing an item is virtuous somehow?

    Whatever it is, shopping sensually solves the problem. Thanks for this post.
  • Thanks for the post.

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