New York girl Rebecca has been full of envy for women who swipe their cards in the mall since she was a child, and hopes that she can also wear these shiny clothes and accessories one day. As an adult, Rebecca fulfilled her childhood wish, but at the cost of 12 credit cards. Not only is she a moonlighter, but she also owes a bunch of credit card debt because of her shopping addiction. Even Rebecca, who joined the anti-credit card consumption mutual aid group, couldn't stop shopping.
Why do we keep shopping ?
The episode "Calling You" in the movie is very interesting. What do you want? What do you want? Why do we keep shopping? Why do we always feel like an item is missing? Why do we want to buy when we see a discount, regardless of whether we really need it? What do you want? Rebecca feels that shopping is a beautiful thing, and that moment makes her feel in love and makes her feel that the world is beautiful! But this feeling will soon disappear, and she needs to find it by shopping again. Sometimes when she got the bill, she couldn't even think of whether she had been to this place or bought such a thing.
Uncovered Debt Crisis
Rebecca is determined to change to a high-paying job to cope with the increasingly serious financial and debt crisis. She fails to enter the fashion magazine she likes, and is hired by the same company's financial magazine by mistake. Although Rui has no professional financial knowledge, an investment article written by her own experience in the shoe-snatching war is very popular with readers. On the one hand, the debt collectors are chasing after her, and on the other hand, her work is getting better and her relationship with her boss is getting closer. Rebecca keeps using lie after lie to hide the debt problem. However, things will come to light one day.
The debt collector finally found Rebecca, or at the scene of her TV interview, and everything was revealed. Friends, family, lovers, and viewers all know about her high debt. "The United States has hundreds of billions of debts that can be paid off, and it doesn't matter to you,"
With the encouragement of her father, Rebecca sold her famous brand goods and paid off all the debts with the sales proceeds.
Debt crisis will not exist because you are an ostrich, but it will get bigger and bigger. Facing the crisis and seeking solutions is the best way.
What exactly defines us?
Fashion magazines, social media bombard us with all kinds of news every day, you need this, you need that, this must be bought, that must be bought, discounted worth buying, limited edition worth buying, co-branding worth buying, star same style It's worth buying, buy it when you're in a bad mood, buy it when you're in a good mood,,,,, we tried to find ourselves in all kinds of shopping, but in the end, we found that there was nothing left except the wardrobe that couldn't fit and the high bill.
There is a scene in the film, when the father decides to sell the RV he has spent all his life savings on to help his daughter pay off the debt, he says that the car does not define who he is, only his daughter and wife can. While it is important to have a loved one, it is even more important to love.
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