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Senior Pictures Becoming Big Business
- Statesman
"Our average sale for a senior is $1,200 to $1,500, but some parents have spent up to $5,000," Meyer said.
Study Claims Moms Mimic Daughters in Fashion
- CNN
"We live in a society that one of the main values is to look younger," Ruvio said. "Most of these women have kids, work and they don't have time to monitor the market and see what is cool and hip, so they basically take a shortcut. Through their teenage daughters, they know they're safe."
New York: Sex Ed Becomes Mandatory
- Fox News
It’s the first time in nearly two decades that middle and high school students will be forced to take the mandatory classes, according to a report first published in The New York Times.
A nation in mourning for Navy SEAL Team 6
- Washington Examiner
As the nation mourns its loss, just as it has the losses of 10 years of a war it did not choose and which it cannot avoid, the greatest thing that civilians can do is remember that their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren are what they are because of warriors flying through mountain passes half a world away
10 Hidden Benefits of Having Children
- Fox News
Come along as we explore the top 10 hidden benefits of having children.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/05/10-hidden-benefits-having-children/#ixzz1USLudd6r
“Heroes” Sue Rescued Woman
- AP
Two Ohio men honored as heroes for their actions after a 2009 car crash are now suing the woman they rescued from a burning vehicle.
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 'Returnaholics' cost retailers billions of dollars a year
- WalletPop.com
When your great-aunt buys you a package of tube socks that you'll never wear, you know just what to do. At the very least you can get store credit and buy something you really like. Maybe that dress that looked so cute in the store's fitting room mirror doesn't look so hot when you try it on at home – what can you do? Take it back. But, what if you buy something that you don't even have the intentions of keeping?
- a drill that you just need for one project
- a shirt for a job-interview that you'll never wear again
- extra beads for a craft project – just in case
Return fraud costs American retailers between $10 and $15 billion dollars last year, according to the National Retail Federation. A majority of this expense can be attributed to dishonest people, knowingly stealing from the stores, by returning items that they never bought in the first place, but many returns fall into a grayer area. Clothes, tools, and many other items are often used to some extent and then returned for reasons other than being faulty or defective. So-called “wardrobing” involves hiding tags on clothes so they can be worn with the tags hidden, and then returned for a full refund. With the economy struggling, these techniques are becoming more and more common.
- Other than being defective, can you think of a circumstance where you would be totally justified in returning a used item?
- How about a scenario that is completely unjustifiable.
- Consider these used items being returned. Would you classify each as “completely okay,” “completely wrong,” or “maybe okay, maybe wrong?”
- A pair of shoes for a school dance that match your dress perfectly, but you'll never wear again.
- A gallon of paint that ended up being extra. Other than opening the can to stir it up, you didn't use it.
- A wooden bench that you know you could make yourself. You bring it home to take some measurements and see how it's put together, then return it when done.
- A pool toy that ended up not being quite as fun as it looked on the box.
Jesus said in regards to oaths to “Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No',” (Matthew 5:37) do you think that buying something with the intention of returning it hurts your integrity? Proverbs 12:22 says that the Lord detests lying lips. Is wardrobing lying, or just “working the system?”
Are your intentions a factor? A store has a return policy. As long as we follow that policy, can we be accused of lying?
Proverbs 11:3 says “The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.”
- Is there anything duplicitous (two-faced) about buying an item with an ulterior motive?
- What do you do if you are shopping with a friend and they tell about their strategy of buying and returning?
- What should you say to someone who encourages you return something after you use it only once?
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