Shopaholics rejoice! Don't let my wife reads this, but turns out that shopping - frequent shopping no less - is good for your health!
Those who shopped daily were 27% less likely to die, with male daily shoppers 28% less likely to die, compared with female shoppers who were 23% less likely to die.
The authors acknowledge that shopping could be a surrogate for good health to begin with, but suggest that shopping itself may improve health, by ensuring a good supply of food, to maintain a healthy diet, for example.
Frequent shopping among the elderly may not always be about buying things, but about seeking companionship or taking exercise, which is easier to do than more formal exercise that usually requires motivation, they say.
So, let me spin it this way to you: Go shop at the NeatoShop and live longer! Yay! Link
Affluenza
I don't play magic anymore, I just thought it would be neat to check out the newer cards and maybe collect them again for safe keeping. So all the excitement I was going to get was in the anticipation, opening and examining the cards for rares. Afterwards, they get filed in a box not to be seen for a long time. I knew if I gave into the desire it would have an addictive property that would leave me feeling a lacking after having opened the cards. Because I fought the desire, this feeling of loss and lacking never occurred.