"It's kind of like we all went overboard"
By Alissa Wilkinson Posted in Blog on March 9, 2009 0 Comments 1 min read
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From the New York Times: Conspicuous Consumption, a Casualty of Recession.

“I think this economy was a good way to cure my compulsive shopping habit,” Maxine Frankel, 59, a high school teacher from Skokie, Ill., said as she longingly stroked a diaphanous black shawl at a shop in the nearby Chicago suburb of Glenview. “It’s kind of funny, but I feel much more satisfied with the things money can’t buy, like the well-being of my family. I’m just not seeking happiness from material things anymore.”

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