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Buying

1. Books: Everything You Need to Know Before Buying a Co-op, Condo, or Townhouse
   If you’ve been thinking about buying a co-op, condo, or townhouse, you may not find much useful information in books geared to buying single family houses. Co-ops and condominium ownership have their own sets of…
2. Books: Not Buying It
   Many of us have tried to call a halt to our spending at one time or another. But what if we decided not to buy anything for a whole year? Obviously, we would need necessities…
3. Books: Shoptimism
   Shoptimism is a guided tour through the parallel worlds of selling and buying. Part I, “Them Versus You,” explores “the Sell Side,” where marketing, retailing, advertising, and consumer-research forces take aim on the American buyer.…
4. Books: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict
   Does shopping make you feel good or feel guilty? Do you buy more clothes than you really need? Spent looks at these difficult questions. Little Avis Cardella devoured her mom’s fashion magazines and learned to…
5. Press: Retailers hold Black Friday-style summer sales for Christmas shoppers
   Looks as though Santa’s summer vacation is getting cut short. Retailers are trying to drum up some Christmas magic five months early with Black Friday-style sales that they hope will put shoppers in the spending…
6. Press: Why elite shoppers eschew logos
   K-Mart and Marc Jacobs have something in common: low- and high-end fashion products tend to have less conspicuous brand markers than midprice goods, according to a paper soon to be published in The Journal of…
7. Press: Where not to use your debit card
   Add one more place to the growing list of locations where you should be wary about using your debit card: gas station pumps. According to a recent post on Consumer Reports’ Money Blog, banks have…
8. Press: Teen ‘haulers’ become a fashion force
   When 14-year-old Bethany Mota gets back from the mall, she eagerly models her latest finds for friends and family. And for tens of thousands more on YouTube. The rising high school sophomore from Los Banos,…
9. Press: Sears brings back the Christmas club
   Remember when people used to save for future expenses like vacations and Christmas? Sears is bringing the Depression-era concept back with its own version of a Christmas club. “While it’s still sunny out, it’s time…
10. Press: Shops grapple with fallout from coupons
    Local shops nationwide are pulling in thousands of new customers with group coupons online, but the deals can sometimes work too well, turning marketing into a game of retail roulette.
11. Press: Online coupons aren’t always great idea
    Never pay retail. The marriage of the Internet and advertising has created a hot new trend — coupons that you buy to get deep discounts on everything from clothing to kayaking. That’s got some experts…
12. Press: Amazon patents plan to avoid bad gifts
    Undoubtedly, the Thread and Bobbin Sewing Kit that Aunt Mildred sent from Amazon.com for Christmas will never see a stitch. The Stallion Stable Music Box might have looked pretty on the computer screen, but under…
13. Press: Dreaming of a bigger home
    When Wyonnie and Kwame Flaherty bought their two-bedroom apartment in Queens, N.Y., in 2008, they thought it was the perfect stepping-stone. Putting down 20% of the $177,000 purchase price, the couple figured that rising home…