Retail Therapy Expert T-Shirts

Woman impulsively buying a book about how to stop impulse buying.

'This is too small. Get me a 12...How many times?! I'm a 10 or a 12 on top and a 12 or 14 on the bottom depending on the shop, the cut of the fabric, the ambient air temperature, and the rotation of Pluto...and we always try the 10 first capiche?'

'Now that I've lost weight, I can't afford new clothes in my size.'

'That's it then - I'll take the slinky high-heeled cocktail number in a 5 and the everyday workshoe in a 7...'

Sale on the same stuff as last week.

Two women wearing identical dresses head toward exchange window at department store.

"It was terrifying experience being faced with that kind of compulsive, insane behaviour...I tell you it's positively the last time I put foot in the sales!"

'What do you do with the time you save?'

Cut Price

Peephole in a pile of presents (colour).

'She's so put together!'

"My online account predicts the things I should own, then buys them with my credit card. It�s very convenient, but I do now need to move to a larger house."

"This is a clever little shop. It makes you think it would be fun to own a lamp."

Wolf trying on sheep's clothing at a retail store.

Mall Directory: You aren't here x - where the heck are you?

"T-shirt weather's coming. How ready are you?"

"I shop, therefore I am."

"Wait a sec, I have a coupon around here somewhere."

"If the economy's ground to a halt, we can help by carrying on shopping."

'It's nothing serious. Rest is the best cure for binge shopping.'

Stuff: You Don't Really Need But Still Don't Have.

'They've certainly got designs on your purse!'

"Sure, shopping online is faster and cheaper, but there's something almost sensuous about carrying an armload of packages!"

"I'm starting my own movement—Occupy Fifty-Seventh Street."

'I love shopping for clothing I don't need with money I don't have.'

"Some fitting room. Nothing fits!"

"Shopping! Now that's what I call quality time!"

"Do you do much walking?"

"Everything's gone up."

A young couple selects items from a shop.

Kensington Fluffies

'We don't know what it is but it was in the sale so we thought we'd better get one before they sold out.'