Not everyone may openly admit to filling their cupboards and wardrobes by mail order.
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At home, I kept opening the refrigerator and cupboards wishing for American foods to magically appear.
The paint was peeling, and books were piled everywhere: on window sills, on top of cupboards.
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Most of Russia's other tycoons have cupboards full of financial and other skeletons, should the authorities start rummaging.
The first floor contains two bedrooms and a bathroom, with stained-birch wardrobes and cupboards built in to eliminate clutter.
Madams can be abusive, shouting at their maids and locking cupboards on the assumption that all servants are thieves.
The service includes things like adding unique paint colors and interior trimmings to custom-making champagne sets, humidors and picnic cupboards.
But many wonder if the Social Democrats are not worried about skeletons that could fall out of their own cupboards.
Huge floor-to-ceiling cupboards hide anything as pedestrian as a kettle or toaster, and the oversize table has a monumental feel.
Nottingham Crown Court heard Mairead Philpott, 31, left eight handwritten notes in cupboards and drawers around the family home in Derby.
And sort of, cupboards lined with blue felt with nothing in them.
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The credit cycle has not yet run its full course, as there are still significant credit losses hiding in the cupboards of banks.
Many older people live in homes that are 40 or more years old, abounding with narrow interior doorways, hard-to-reach kitchen cupboards and potentially hazardous bathroom fixtures.
Smart fridges and pantry cupboards will beg you to order more yoghurt and thoughtfully anticipate your last few servings of whatever the vendor is trying to sell.
Consumers have been advised to dispose of any cans of food they may have in their cupboards that contain beef from a specified European country of origin.
In discreet cupboards nestled between the double doors of the drawing and smoking rooms, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon once stashed Egyptian artifacts sourced from his archaeological adventures.
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Mr. Turner's open-plan studio takes up the ground floor, while a small kitchenette and bathroom, plus storage cupboards, are hidden behind sliding doors made from white-stained birch plywood.
But for the moment, politicians in Madrid continue to say it's not the Spanish bull that's running on empty -- but the Spanish banks whose cupboards are dry.
The companies had been holding almost everything back, but as the online culture emerged, that no longer worked, and they opened their cupboards, betting that listeners, once enticed, would buy.
Proper safeguards were essential, Lord Scott argued, and he warned of huge public indignation at having "faceless regulators demanding entry, rummaging through their cupboards and papers, without any judicial authorisation".
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He had driven to the Indo-Pakistani food store one city over, brought home a dozen bags of spices, and rooted around in the cupboards for empty jars to store them in.
They were spread out on the lawn and sunned repeatedly for days, in a desperate effort to rid them of their naphthalene odor, after which they were hung or folded up and put into cupboards.
As a boy he made a workshop in his parents' cellar, mapping out dovetails with dividers while other boys played football, and he courted his future wife with the history of tables, chairs and cupboards.
The varnish on the cupboards looked richer.
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While I struggle to decide what to eat from full cupboards and lament what I don't have, he circles the floor, excitedly anticipating the very same meal, in the very same portion, at the very same time every day.
Well Money is New Year, a time for clearing out all the bits of financial paperwork we accumulate in our files and cupboards - some of course we have to keep but what and when can we throw them away?
In the two years it took for Hughes to build his Las Vegas empire in the late 1960s, his bed sheets were changed only five times, his room was never vacuumed at all and the cupboards filled up with jars of his urine.
The girls emptied the cupboards of clothes, the friend exclaiming over the elaborate range of styles women of that generation wore, how many personalities they could project as if they had been able to choose, when now you belonged to the outfit of jeans and T-shirt.
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