Ben Franklin wrote, "Rather go to Bed Supperless than rise in Debt," but now our mottos are "Born to shop" and "I shop, therefore I am." Now our money is plastic and our debt is real. Somewhere along the way, we got to be a nation that consumes instead of creates, that spends instead of saves. More freedom the way Americans measure it, which is ways to spend money. More books, more clothes, more housewares, more places to eat. A Tysons sign advertises the new expansion with the simple word "More." More what? More walking, that's for sure. Tysons is one of the largest malls in the country, and it recently got bigger. "I've been walking around looking for her for the past 45 minutes," says one guy.īad place to lose someone. There is a long row of men on couches with their jaws in their hands, not reading or talking, blank and mule-like, waiting for their women. There are parents pushing strollers weighed down with packages, and fat babies with William H. There are packs of coltish teenage girls. Stepping out of a store and into the hallway at Tysons, we risk being trampled by the herd. This is the Saturday crush, a few weeks before the big gift-giving day. It's the Christmas season and what better place than a mall? Hallelujah! Let's shop. We collect "atomic" clocks and decorative candles. Another animal might have collected nuts for the winter. On these Saturdays before Christmas, we start early and go till it's dark, our arms heavy like we've accomplished something, and perhaps we have. When the shopping bug hits, sometimes we buy a thing without even knowing who it's for, but damn if it isn't the cutest cat-shaped clay teapot we've ever seen! Acquisition feels good desire begets desire.
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("Need" in that flexible sense of the word, the way a couch needs a decorative pillow.) We buy ourselves a cheese board, plus a belt to go with the boots we're also buying, because we're nothing if not generous and after all, it's nearly Christmas. Besides, we're already here, right? Surely we need some-thing. We see a sale sign, it's like a buffet in the forest.
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"When you're at the mall, your natural instinct.
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"But they were on sale," says her friend, Hilary Stetekluh. "We bought ourselves some sweaters," says Emily Sajewski, 14, standing in Tysons Corner Center during a trip, ostensibly, to shop for Christmas gifts. PO Box, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, US Protectorates, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.But enough about presents. Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Republic of, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, French Guiana, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guernsey, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Korea, South, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Martinique, Mexico, Monaco, Montserrat, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam