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So Wrong It’s Right: Impulse Purchase at the Bead Monkey

March 11th, 2009 20 Comments

Image via Wikipedia “I just spent $69 at Bead Monkey” was a sentence I never thought I’d utter. My husband and I took delight in the fact that a) such a store existed and b) we couldn’t figure out why. I am not a crafty person. When a fellow preschool parent recently asked me, “What [...]

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Spending Habits: The Sucker Factor

July 20th, 2008 No Comments

A few years back, pre-kids, my husband and I wandered into an antique store looking for nothing in particular. Spotting a china set laid out on a table near the door, we eyed it discreetly. What happened next reminds me of the carpenter ant that, just the other day, tripped into a spider’s thread underneath [...]

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