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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 decor?
Was it a month ago?
A week ago?
An hour ago?
After all, buying things is so easy now.
We can drop a hundred bucks 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 because we definitely will start making cakes
if we have a cake stand right of course a lot of this stuff we 're buying is n't stuff we need let 's go through my purse
i have let 's count one two three four five six lip balms this is alicia berman in a conversation