
I don’t think I’m spoiling the story since the happy end is fairly easy to predict. An offer for a better job (at least a different job).You can be quite certain she’s going to get at least three of the following: She’s destined to become bankrupt and homeless, to end up on the streets in despair. She knows two bachelors from the list of the fifty richest men in the country (how come I’ve never met any multimillionaires if they’re that easy to come by?) but she’s not likely to marry either one of them. Even her attempt to bluff her way into a better job fails miserably. But she can’t fight her shopaholism and her career is stagnating. She’s been in denial for a long time, but now it’s getting painfully obvious she needs to Cut Back or Make More Money. No wonder her bank manager is stalking her. Two pairs of shoes, three pots of moisturizer, and wads of bills she can’t pay are all in a day’s work. Whenever something goes wrong she fixes her problems with a hefty dose of retail therapy whenever anything is for sale she can’t resist. Or wait, maybe it was “I live, therefore I shop.” Shopping is her only hobby and a true addiction for her. “I shop, therefore I live,” is her motto. Ironically, Rebecca Bloomwood writes financial articles in a magazine called Successful Saving, although she could write an encyclopedia about all the things she doesn’t know about successful saving.
