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Continue shopping Checkout Continue shopping. Chi ama i libri sceglie Kobo e inMondadori. Home eBooks Nonfiction Retail Therapy: Available in Russia Shop from Russia to buy this item. Or, get it for Kobo Super Points! Retail Therapy is a playful yet wise look at the pleasures of shopping. Amanda Ford loves to shop, and she exuberantly shares the stories of her most memorable finds -- the perfect pink sweater, a set of precious porcelain dishes, a dusty yet valuable antique.
But she also shows how shopping allows us to examine deeper truths about our lives and what is really going on when money is spent. Ratings and Reviews 0 0 star ratings 0 reviews. Overall rating No ratings yet 0. How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World. Getting the Pretty Back. Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic. What to Talk About. Of Mess and Moxie.
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Instead tell me that I should figure out that I don't want the shoes because they are not recognition, support, or love, they are just shoes. After I read this book I thought about how nice it would be to only own and wear clothing that I really loved. This book is well-written and fun to read. Review originally posted on Alexa Loves Books This is another book I borrowed from a friend over the weekend while I was staying at her place - a fitting read for her and I because we both love to shop!
This was definitely a nice, easy read, with the book broken down into main sections, and then into little "rules" under each section.
The author successfully managed to integrate some basics of shopping and some other characteristics of shopping into advice for how to live your life. With this Review originally posted on Alexa Loves Books This is another book I borrowed from a friend over the weekend while I was staying at her place - a fitting read for her and I because we both love to shop! With this interesting combination, it was filled with helpful advice and interesting little anecdotes from the author.
That having been said, I feel like that author could have elaborated a bit more about these personal tenets of hers. Although some of them were quite simple, there were a few that deserved a little more elaboration. Not only could a little more elaboration have been used, but, quite possibly, the author might have distinguished something similar to a list of top ten life lessons or something a bit easier to remember.
There were quite a lot of different lessons learned so it's hard to remember them, which is what I believe the author intended for us to do. All in all, I'd recommend this for fans of shopping and self-help, quite possibly as a gift. Jan 15, Phyllis rated it it was ok Shelves: I had a sinking feeling that despite my fairly horrible compulsive shopping habits I was far from the intended audience for this book when the author has a total gratitude epiphany while buying a Greatest Hits of U2 CD.
For most of this book I could see where Amanda Ford was coming from, but some of her personal anecdotes about shopping are so amazingly daffy that I was embarrassed to be one of her people. One of her shopping people. For example, an incredibly involved story about how she wanted I had a sinking feeling that despite my fairly horrible compulsive shopping habits I was far from the intended audience for this book when the author has a total gratitude epiphany while buying a Greatest Hits of U2 CD.
For example, an incredibly involved story about how she wanted to buy a garbage can she saw in Martha Stewart Living that looked really great but it cost 55 dollars so she didn't. There's some pretty excruciating women be different from men material in here, too.
In conclusion, it was probably naive of me to expect a book with a cartoon cover to cut to the root of my problems using mindless bargain shopping to heal all my various psychological wounds, but it did get me thinking more about compulsive consumerism, so that's a good thing. It requires strength to acknowledge difficult times; it takes true dedication to sit with pain. It is easy to run to the mall or to your favorite little shop at the first sense of dissatisfaction with your life. Like a turtle retreating into her shell, spending money in hopes of changing your mood, your look, or your reputation is just hiding-it's avoiding the true source of your pain.
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I was surprised by that longing! Very enjoyable read with humor and application throughout, I'll probably be passing this along to my sisters. Oct 18, Jayna rated it did not like it Shelves: Overall, this book is not my cup of tea. Honestly, it was a bathroom read over many a month.
It was not compelling to any vast degree. The life lessons were not profound in any dramatic way: Additionally, I actually disagreed with some of the lessons trust your own advice always over others, based on the premise that the author has not had wonderful luck following the advice of others: This is not a blanket experience for people, thus it is a poor life lesson. Many times more experienced people and observers know better than we do. Anyway, this is the type of non-fiction that has typically caused me to claim an adverse dislike of non-fiction.
Seriously people, do you really need books like this to help you out? May 13, Ade rated it did not like it. This book was a little disappointing.