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• n  a compulsive shopper
  shopaholics can never resist a bargain

• Long, long ago, in times far more prosperous than ours, there were people we called shopaholics .
• Following his 1986 flight from Haiti to the French Riviera, he installed his shopaholic wife Michele and their children in a palatial home near Cannes.
• Contrary to the shopaholic stereotypes, Japanese buy less stuff than their counterparts in other nations.

News & Articles

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• Trash to treasure: Touring Park Ridge’s garage sales
  Think of it as part bonding experience, part shopaholic bargain hunting. My mother behind the wheel of her 1984 Ford Thunderbird (the one that stalled at every stoplight as soon as the temperature hit 85 degrees) and I in the passenger seat, a copy of the Park Ridge Advocate on my lap. The paper is open to the classified section, a long list of garage sales promising surprises and hidden ...
  June 28, 2013 - Park Ridge Herald-Advocate

Quotes

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• Isla Fisher in Hollywood Today Newsmagazine
  I thought there's something funny about a Shopaholic impractically buying ridiculously high heels and tottering throughout the stores,says Fisher "I thought it would be amusing. But it was less amusing, of course, when I was actually doing...
• Lindsay Lohan in Channel News Asia
  I would define my personality as creative, a bit of a night owl,Lohan said in the video. "I'm a workaholic, a shopaholic and according to the state of California, an alcoholic as well as a threat to all security guards if they work at...
• Rhodri Morgan in BBC News
  Mr Morgan said the "competitive model" seemed to regard people like tenants, patients, pupils and parents as "some sort of shopaholic, always on the lookout for new ways of elbowing their way to some new smidgin of fresh personal advantage".