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Dialogue :
shop-a-holics
dialogue 1
Jingjing: Mark, what have you got ______ for ______?
Mark: We talk about this ______, Jingjing. This year, ______, I'm not really ______.
Jingjing: Isn't there anything on your ______, at least?
Mark: Well, I could use a ______ with boot ______, as well as a nice ______. But those are the kind of things I have to ____, even if I do ______ a bit better ______.
Jingjing: I already have about ______ in my ______.
Mark: Oh yeah? What kinds of things ______?
Jingjing: ______ is ______.
Mark: Those little ______ quickly, even if they are just ______.
Jingjing: Try ______, or 280 in one ______. I use that stuff ______ though, and have seen my ______ if I buy ______.
Mark: That ______, so long as those ______ work.
Jingjing: They ______.
Mark: Still, 3000 is ______. Are you sure you don't want to ______ some of those ______?
Jingjing: I've been ______ here and there. The total ______!
Mark: Wow, Jingjing! If I didn't ______, I'd say you were a ______.
Jingjing: You do ______, Mark. And this is a ______ thing. So, I've spent the last week or so ______ my ______.
Mark:______. A shop-a-holic can ______ with meticulousness—just like a ______ can call themselves a ______.
Jingjing: Don't you think I know that? I avoid ______. Now, if I can get ______, I might give myself ______.
Mark: I bet ______. And, when you do, how about ______?
Jingjing: That's why I asked you ______. ______ now, Mark!
dialogue 2
Jingjing: Mark, do you think ______ is an ______?
Mark: You know, I doubt that ______ look at it ______ as smoking or ______. But some of the ______ are the same.
Jingjing: ______ one.
Mark: OK, how about an ______ amount of ______, in ways that ______ or other areas of a person's life?
Jingjing: That sounds like it could ______, or gambling. How would that ______ shopping?
Mark: Easily: Someone could go ______ and ______.
Jingjing: Hmm, I guess so. Shopping can be quite ______.
Mark:______ as well as a drinker, I know that I was always ______ to go for a ______ or a few drinks.
Jingjing: Um, and you think shop-a-holics would ______ over something like ______ or bobby pins?
Mark: ______ Actually, I don't know anyone who has a severe shopping ______. So, I ought to ______.
Jingjing: Just as well. I've got a friend who ______ almost all her ______ each month, and hardly has any ______ apart from ______.
Mark: Have you talked with her about it?
Jingjing: I've ______. It doesn't sound like ______.
Mark: Find out about her ______, and give her a ______ if she's ______. Otherwise, let her be, and hope ______.
Jingjing: She's been like that since we were ______. I think she just ______ she's earned, though.
Mark: Fair enough, if she doesn't ______. ______ that ______.
ingjing: Like what?
Mark: Like ______. Lots of my students have told me they ______.
Jingjing: There you go with ______ again, Mark, trying to ______!
new words and phrases
<be> in the market for <something>:
wish list:
the bulk of <something>:
stretch <one's> money farther (or) money stretches farther:
nix:
connoisseur:
impulse purchase:
I wouldn't put it past <someone>.
keep <one's> mouth shut about <something>:
discretionary income:
blow through money: