Life Style: Life Without Shopping - You Can If You Try ; Shopaholics Might Cringe at the Thought of a Year Without Any 'Luxuries'. One Couple Tried It and Happily Survived
Birmingham Post › July 15, 2006
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England may have lost the World Cup but during their stay in Germany the "WAGs" became champions in the art of shopping. In just one hour in the boutique-brimming spa town of Baden Baden, six of the women blew pounds 57,000 topping up their designer wardrobes.
The spend-happy other halves should take some thrifty advice from Judith Levine, who endured a 365-day journey to jilt the shopping habit and abandon consumer culture.See the full content of this document
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Life Style: Life Without Shopping - You Can If You Try ; Shopaholics Might Cringe at the Thought of a Year Without Any 'Luxuries'. One Couple Tried It and Happily Survived
The 53-year-old American writer, author of new book Not Buying It, is a woman who once revelled in life's little luxuries like French roast coffee and SmartWool socks until one fateful Christmas opened her eyes.
"It was Christmas 2003' I'd maxed out my credit card and I'd...See the full content of this document
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