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" Somewhere in my DNA, I swear there&amp;#039;s an impulsive-shopper gene. I can sit down to watch a normal TV show and, before I know what&amp;#039;s hit me, I&amp;#039;m the proud new owner of some chopping gadget. I once walked into a home show to check out flooring and left with a 7,500-gallon blow-up swimming pool complete with heater and filter system. I really did. I can dash into the supermarket to pick up bread and eggs and leave with $50 of other stuff that just looks good. I am every marketing professional&amp;#039;s dream come true. And that&amp;#039;s a problem. I could easily impulse-shop myself into oblivion. Trying to defeat my impulsive nature, I started taking only cash to the grocery store. It&amp;#039;s not the easiest way to shop but it&amp;#039;s really hard to overspend when all you have is $30 in your pocket\u2014no backup plastic or checkbook. I&amp;#039;m a completely different kind of consumer. I head straight for what I need, and I&amp;#039;m outta there fast. Nothing deters me, because what&amp;#039;s the point? I have only enough money to get what I need. It&amp;#039;s been years since I swore off malls. I just couldn&amp;#039;t handle the temptation, so in a lucid moment\u2014when I was miles from any shopping mall\u2014I decided not to go again. It was hard at first, but now I don&amp;#039;t even think about it. Just when I thought I might have this impulsive thing under control, here comes a new\u2014and, might I say, very cool\u2014way to impulse shop. ShopText is a system that allows customers to buy something by simply sending a text message. You don&amp;#039;t have to go to the store, or even to a website. The way I understand it, you see an ad for something you simply adore, note the code next to it and send a text message. In a matter of seconds, the deal is done and your must-have product is on its way. Yikes, that sounds so fabulous\u2026uh, I mean, horrible! Already, a battle rages inside of me. Part of me wants to try this text-code purchase thing as soon as possible. But another part is scared to death of it. Here&amp;#039;s what I&amp;#039;m going to do: I&amp;#039;ll purposely not open a ShopText account. There. That should do it. And if I happen to fall into a shopping coma and begin texting my brains out, in those few moments it takes to get an undeliverable message returned, I will have come to my senses. Actually, I can&amp;#039;t wait because I&amp;#039;ll be so happy that one more time I saved myself by tricking my impulsive-shopper gene. What do you think? Would you try ShopText? What do you do to avoid impulse buys? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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