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Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #1)
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•Ironic how Becky can’t manage to pay her bills or stop spending money, yet she’s a finance journalist giving other people advice about how to manage there money.
•In a weird way, I can relate to her. She tells herself she won’t spend the money, but at the end she spends more than she even has. And me, I always tell myself that I’ll save money and won’t buy anything and end up buying something and having no money left.
•There’s always some sort of sale going on every store she passes by.
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•Rebecca knows every brand, every price of every brand, every store.
•Everything’s connected to shopping
•Isn’t it awkward to borrow money from a stranger and then hang out with them like you’re old friends?
•Her parents have to get their skills from soap operas.
•How can people believe her lies, they’re so unbelievable!
•Fantasizes really crazy but cool stuff
•Her lies are so complicated
•Determined never gives up.
•She’s clearly in love with Luke Brandon
•She was going to use Tarkie, just to get his money and pay all her bills and debts.
•“Don’t eat more than you can chew� I thought that this expression was relevant to the book. But in Rebecca’s case, I’d say “Don’t buy more than you can pay.� Because each time Becky enters a shop she gets that urge to buy something. But she can’t pay it all. She has bills to pay, her credit cards in debt, and she owes money in Octagon. At first, I thought that it could be pretty easy just to stop shopping and spending money. But then I kept thinking, that really it’s not as easy as it seems. Rebecca has a passion for shopping. And her dream right now, is that she can shop for anything she wants and not have to pay off anything. Her happiness ends quickly, because when it’s her turn to the clerk to pay off all her items, her happiness goes away because her credit cards in debt or because she has no money on her.
•I think that it’s all about the conscience. The voice in our heads telling us that to not do this because it’s wrong, and just a little bit of it won’t do suck harm. And in Rebecca’s case, her conscience is telling her not to walk into a shop but peeking in won’t be so bad. And not to buy anything because she’s in debt but buying 1 little tiny teeny thing won’t be so bad it’ll be the best thing in the world.
•All Rebecca is trying to do is to find her real self. She’s a financial journalist giving people advice on how to manage their money, but yet she cannot manage her money. She thinks that people don’t respect her, that they just think of her as a silly girl. But she wants everyone to know that she isn’t a silly girl, she’s Rebecca Bloomwood. But Rebecca’s whole journey throughout the book is finding her real self.
•I think that the girl at the shop symbolizes Rebecca. The girl was determined that she would get those jeans as was Rebecca. They both would do anything for that particular pair of zebra printed jeans. The girl reported Rebecca getting her fired and Rebecca hid those jeans from the girl. When Rebecca was fired from her job, she thought the girl was really obsessed with those jeans. But yet so was Rebecca. And therefore I thought of her as a hypocrite just for that one moment.
•She just wanted to use Tarquin! Get his money, pay her bills, go shopping and then dump him.
•Becky’s world just revolves around shopping
•How come her best friend Suze doesn’t help her with the money situation?
•Why can’t Becky just ask her parents for some money help?
•Why can’t she just go to the meeting with Smeater?
•Rebecca reminds me of a little kid who doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong
•Ironic how Becky can’t manage to pay her bills or stop spending money, yet she’s a finance journalist giving other people advice about how to manage there money.
•In a weird way, I can relate to her. She tells herself she won’t spend the money, but at the end she spends more than she even has. And me, I always tell myself that I’ll save money and won’t buy anything and end up buying something and having no money left.
•There’s always some sort of sale going on every store she passes by.
•H²â±è´Ç³¦°ù¾±³Ù±ð
•Rebecca knows every brand, every price of every brand, every store.
•Everything’s connected to shopping
•Isn’t it awkward to borrow money from a stranger and then hang out with them like you’re old friends?
•Her parents have to get their skills from soap operas.
•How can people believe her lies, they’re so unbelievable!
•Fantasizes really crazy but cool stuff
•Her lies are so complicated
•Determined never gives up.
•She’s clearly in love with Luke Brandon
•She was going to use Tarkie, just to get his money and pay all her bills and debts.
•“Don’t eat more than you can chew� I thought that this expression was relevant to the book. But in Rebecca’s case, I’d say “Don’t buy more than you can pay.� Because each time Becky enters a shop she gets that urge to buy something. But she can’t pay it all. She has bills to pay, her credit cards in debt, and she owes money in Octagon. At first, I thought that it could be pretty easy just to stop shopping and spending money. But then I kept thinking, that really it’s not as easy as it seems. Rebecca has a passion for shopping. And her dream right now, is that she can shop for anything she wants and not have to pay off anything. Her happiness ends quickly, because when it’s her turn to the clerk to pay off all her items, her happiness goes away because her credit cards in debt or because she has no money on her.
•I think that it’s all about the conscience. The voice in our heads telling us that to not do this because it’s wrong, and just a little bit of it won’t do suck harm. And in Rebecca’s case, her conscience is telling her not to walk into a shop but peeking in won’t be so bad. And not to buy anything because she’s in debt but buying 1 little tiny teeny thing won’t be so bad it’ll be the best thing in the world.
•All Rebecca is trying to do is to find her real self. She’s a financial journalist giving people advice on how to manage their money, but yet she cannot manage her money. She thinks that people don’t respect her, that they just think of her as a silly girl. But she wants everyone to know that she isn’t a silly girl, she’s Rebecca Bloomwood. But Rebecca’s whole journey throughout the book is finding her real self.
•I think that the girl at the shop symbolizes Rebecca. The girl was determined that she would get those jeans as was Rebecca. They both would do anything for that particular pair of zebra printed jeans. The girl reported Rebecca getting her fired and Rebecca hid those jeans from the girl. When Rebecca was fired from her job, she thought the girl was really obsessed with those jeans. But yet so was Rebecca. And therefore I thought of her as a hypocrite just for that one moment.
•She just wanted to use Tarquin! Get his money, pay her bills, go shopping and then dump him.
•Becky’s world just revolves around shopping
•How come her best friend Suze doesn’t help her with the money situation?
•Why can’t Becky just ask her parents for some money help?
•Why can’t she just go to the meeting with Smeater?
•Rebecca reminds me of a little kid who doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong
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The way Rebbecca can't stop herself from shopping and buying stuff I can sort of relate to her. I mean, I don't have a credit or debit card. But when I do have on me I can't stop myself from spending it. I don't really think before I pay for whatever I'm getting to the clerk, and that's the same thing Rebbecca does, she doesn't realize wt she's getting herself into she just thinks about getting stuff.
I feel bad for her because of the way she lives. She has credit card bills to pay, a banker chasing after her, living in a flat with her best friend who has no idea of what she's going through, the lies that she has to continuously make, and of course her shopping addiction.
Why can't Becky just use simpler more believable lies. She's already lying so why say such complicated ones? And it's even more dumber cause whoever Becky lies to they actually believe her.
Whatever happens in life you can't just runaway. One day she wakes up and decides to just to leave. But her problems just became worser and worser. She had to keep on lying, I mean what's wrong with just telling the truth.