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compulsive shopper



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A compulsive shopper who is drowning in debt lands a job as an advice columnist for a financial magazine.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2020

My mother has always been a compulsive shopper.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2019

When they came across evidence that Pam was a compulsive shopper, squirreling away “cheap chunky jewelry” from the Home Shopping Network, they still don’t suspect her.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2019

What your wife does is bad for retailers’ bottom line, but it’s better for yours that she’s a compulsive returner and not just a compulsive shopper.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2013

Ms. Lynch herself is a compulsive shopper with thousands of dollars of clothes in her closet that don’t fit.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2011




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