They've cut expenses by forgoing vacations, having meals at home and buying clothes only during sales.
At one time you could obtain all your insurance, banking and brokerage needs at a Sears, while buying clothes, tools and appliances.
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The article disparages buying clothes of high-tech materials, such as Gore-Tex.
One poll taken after the building collapse in Bangladesh found that 30% of Americans said that buying clothes made under safe working conditions is very important to them.
Now, not only is that bad in terms of people then not getting services and being less safe, or kids not -- having a larger class sizes or all those things, but obviously when those people lose their jobs they can't spend money buying a new car or buying clothes or buying the computer for their kids.
Instead of buying the clothes, Plum will let you rent clothes until your daughter has outgrown them.
Indians, ever a dressy lot, are buying more clothes as they get richer.
Finally, when putting together your maternity wardrobe, avoid buying maternity clothes until you actually need them, instead of in one fell swoop.
The 54% of women buying fewer clothes and shoes now, compared with only 40% of men, may be better prepared for a recovery.
Most of their parents had factory jobs, too, but that didn't stop them from buying nice clothes and tennis shoes and toys, whatever it took to assimilate.
"What this study in part reveals is that people are only semi-conscious of the underlying reasons behind the choices they make in the context of buying sexy clothes, " he said.
Bulls says the March fall in sales was an anomaly, the result of an unseasonable cold weather that kept shoppers in much of the country from buying spring clothes and seasonal merchandise.
Roughly half of those jobs would be "induced" jobs, those "generated when highway construction workers respend their income on consumer goods and services -- like lunch at McDonald's or going to the movies or buying new clothes, " said Wells.
Imagine being able to check your air conditioner from your smartphone, or buying a clothes dryer that saves money for you automatically during critically hot days, or simply getting some helpful customized hints on how best to save energy and money in your house or apartment.
Men who can afford to are buying expensive casual clothes--cashmere sweaters, suede jackets, supple sports coats--but they're also buying suits.
With a background in digital imaging, Sareen set out to make an inexpensive body scanner that could utilize Tukatech's technology to better serve the clothes-buying public.
At the same time, she was intensely feminine, loved buying and wearing smart clothes, had the best head of hair in British politics and spent a fortune keeping it well dressed.
The less bright side is that parents are buying ever more fancy clothes, toys and special snacks for their little precious - while paying precious little attention to their own needs and desires.
After the Atlanta couple got married, she found herself buying him bigger and bigger clothes.
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It's even more difficult to figure out if your clothes are made in safe factories if you're buying from retailers that don't specifically market their clothes as ethically made.
"Probably 90% of the clothing people are buying in the whole country are second-hand clothes, " says Owori.
In an uncertain buying climate, Dunn says, consumers still spend on casual clothes and underwear.
After paying bills and buying food I find it difficult to even buy toiletries let alone any new clothes and that's before this is introduced.
Waitt, who sports casual clothes and shaggy strawberry-blond hair, is one of myriad monied outsiders buying their way into show business, including Marshall Field heir Frederick (Ted) Field and Federal Express founder Frederick Smith.
Tarloff prepared for his plan, calling a hospital to find out where Shinbach's private office was, buying knives and a meat-pounding mallet and arriving with a suitcase of adult diapers and clothes for his mother.
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