"It means I haven't got the money to go shopping, I'm just able to cover my bills and not get into debt at the moment, " she says.

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My only hope is that I have a hat fit to adorn it (ahhh, I see another excuse to go shopping)!

CNN

When I first told a very classy, sophisticated friend from San Francisco, with a budget to buy from the runway if she wanted to, that I was headed to Polk Street to go shopping, she was beyond horrified.

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Ms. MICHELE SHANNON (Senior Director of Product Development, Websense, Inc.): What a lot of companies will do is they'll say, I'll allow you to go to your travel sites or your shopping sites, but what I don't want you to do is spend all day dong it.

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So I'm going to go back shopping -- (laughter) -- because we still have a couple of more days, and we're going to pick up some more toys for 11- to 14-year-olds.

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The last time I looked, no one forced anyone to go shopping on Black Friday or any other day.

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No-one should dictate to you to the point where you have to start going, when you go shopping, oh I can't buy this and I can't buy that, and I shouldn't buy this and I shouldn't buy that because my recycling bin is full up so I can't get anymore cardboard in it.

BBC