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“Shopping is my cardio” a quote that every single women use in they’re lives. It’s like spending a day in paradise, ”let’s go shopping” is our favorite sentence to say. And malls are our second home, we could spend hours In a place with only shops no need for food or people to be with us just shops somewhere to throw our money that we had worked for away without resentments and without thinking about the people that are out there struggling to just have a gulp of water. Women and men think different of this matter for example I would rather be at the mall shopping than sitting on a move theatre, my brother would rather sit 3 hours watching a movie than going shopping if he doesn’t need something specifically. It’s not only us my mom and my step father for example he’s always talking about how women spend thousands of dollars in a pair of shoes and how he thinks that’s ridiculous, By this we can see that women are way more shopaholic than men and would rather go shopping than anything else this makes us bigger consumers than men in every aspect.
In percent’s I can say that yes we wom...

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