Tag: retailtherapy
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Women + Shopping = Happiness
Look how happy this woman looks! I had a bit of a shite week last week and needed some release, so I decided to go shopping. It’s not something I like to admit to – needing to spend money to feel happy – because I’m sure it undermines my intelligence and makes me sound likes…
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Is Clothes Shopping Really Therapeutic For Middle-Aged Women?
I headed into Pitt St Mall with NC on Saturday. My aim was to have some retail therapy to help me compete with the other queens at Mardi Gras. In my mind I was probably aspiring to end up looking like this… I really wanted to look like this… I was certainly determined to spend…
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Too Much Junk In The Trunk
It’s killing me to admit it, but I’ve now got too much ‘junk in my trunk’ to wear surf fashion. My unwilling bodily metamorphosis into middle age is cramping my enjoyment of retail therapy in a big way. I’ve lost the ability to recognise what looks good on this new bulkier frame that my hormones…
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Midlife Mayhem – Am I A Hypochondriac Or Just Getting Old?
The subject matter of good dinner party chitchat has found a disturbing niche, now that we’ve hit our forties. Although ‘life was supposed to begin’ at this stage of our lives, we seem to be stuck at the ‘recognition of our own mortality’ roadblock far earlier than we anticipated. Whereas in my twenties we used…
LOUISA SIMMONDS 