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SHINY OBJECTS: Why We Spend Money We Don't Have in Search of Happiness We Can't Buy
SHINY OBJECTS takes a careful and amusing look at how our love of material possessions impacts our happiness and what we can do to find true happiness in a culture awash in material possession love.
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Tag Archives: Pets
Halloween Spending 2012: Talk About Scary!
If you’ve read my book, Shiny Objects, you know I can’t resist a good story on how much Americans spend on their pets – talk about scary. Halloween is just around the corner and it looks like spending on All … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Halloween, pet costumes, Pets, pumpkin, Shiny Objects, spending, spooky, Top 10 pet costumes
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The Real St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
Do you feel, like the graphic poster above suggests, that you must spend your hard-earned money on Valentine’s Day to show others how much you care? Apparently, many of us do. The National Retail Federation (NRF) forecasts that Americans … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, candy, jewelry, massacre, Pets, spending, Valentine's Day
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Consumers Gone Wild
There is a particular section of my upcoming book, Shiny Objects, which exposes the crazy things we do as consumers. I refer to the short vignettes that appear throughout the book as “Consumers Gone Wild” (CGW). The opening CGW … Continue reading
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Tagged billions, Consumers Gone Wild, Halloween, pet costumes, Pets, spending
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