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She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big ...

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It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'l...

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Alexander McCall SmithTea Time for the Traditionally Built

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around...

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Don't buy much but make sure that what you buy is good.

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Christian DiorThe Little Dictionary of Fashion: A Guide to Dress Sense for Every Woman

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole differen...

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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are thre...

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Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whethe...

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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the tru...

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Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, dead...

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The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe...

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Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating th...

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Jeanette WintersonChristmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down th...

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Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there ar...

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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. ...

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When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You sh...

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Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activit...

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I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It...

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