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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
When was the last time you bought something like a piece of clothing or jewelry or electronics or makeup or a kitchen gadget or home decorous?
Or was it a month ago?
A week ago?
An hour ago?
After all, buying things is so easy.
Now we can drop $100 on a deluxe egg cooker while we're waiting for the subway.
Or buy sunglasses on flash sale while we're in line for coffee.
Even grab an adorable hot pink cake stand while we're in a Zoom meeting.
Cause we definitely will start making cakes if we have a cake stand, right?
Of course, a lot of this stuff we're buying isn't stuff we need.
Let's go through my purse.
I have.
Let's count.
123-4566 Lip balms that's Alicia Berman.