Shopaholics

In my opinion the most of the shopaholics are women. I understand under a shopaholic a person who love shopping. If shopaholics have a bad mood, they go shopping. They buy and are happy, at least for a short time.

The self esteem of this persons are most very low. With shopping they try to compensate it.

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Interesting Sources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/big_spender/3393939.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/8173271.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/nov/26/tracymcveigh.theobserver

Facts about Compulsive shoppers, Impulsive shoppers, bargain shoppers and window shoppers

There are at least four different types of shoppers. I want to present you these four types. These four types I want to present you. About Shopaholics, I want write a extra article, after this.

Compulsive shoppers or Shopaholics
Compulsive shoppers have to buy something. Buying is for their a thing like to brush their teeth or eat something. It is a need, that they must do every day! If they have not enough money, they get very fast a big problem, because the force to buy is very strong.

Impulsive shoppers
Impulsive shoppers doesn't plan what they want to buy. They can go from product to product for hours, without buying something. Then, short time before they leave the store, they buy one, two, three or more articles.

Bargain shoppers
Bargain Shoppers spend money, but save money too. They love coupons, discounts, end-of-season sales and bargain racks. Bargain Shopper drives hundred of miles only to save the one or other percentage.

Window shoppers
Window shoppers looking for hours without buying something. They rarely buy. The most of the fascination of buying a new think, takes place in the mind of the window shoppers.

6 minutes english - Shopaholics

Today I want point to the 6 minutes english Podcast, which you can find in the right navbar on this site. The topic is this week shopaholics. Thats quite awesome, because this is one topic for my next class test on wednesday - tomorrow. I must write more than three hours (!) about "The changing patterns of work and consumption". The test includes questions, which I must answer, a graph, which I must describe an a translation.

If you missed the 6 minutes english - Shopaholics, you can hear the podcast episode here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2009/10/091015_6min_shopaholics_page.shtml

It is a interesting topic, because there are four different types of shoppers: Compulsive shoppers, impulsive shoppers, bargain shoppers and window shoppers. I will describe all shopper in a new post.

Interesting is the percentage of Shopaholics. After some sources there are 10% of the population are shopaholics

Motor Vehicle Registration China

(Graph from http://www.greeneconometrics.com/)

Today I want describe the line graph about the motor vehicle registration in China. Firstly you see a drastically increase from 1985 to 2005. The registration increased from less than 4 millions motor vehicles to over 16 millions only in twenty years. The graph illustrates the fact, that china became bigger and bigger.

With the increase of the vehicle registrations in china, come a lot of problems. A big problem is the contamination for the nature. But china have also the right of growth like other countries before.

Blogging is Fun!

Ok, thats not the total truth, blogging is work! But I think, that this english blog has improve my skills in this language. They are not perfect, but a lot better. In the school I improve my english mark from a "3" to a "2". So I will continue writing here over topics from the english lessons.

Because of this success I create a further blog, but this blog is about the french language. I hope it will help me too. Here is the new blog of my second blog: http://ecrire-francais.blogspot.com/