Buyer's Remorse — With Buzz Bissinger

Dear Sugars

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Sugar, Wbur, Dear, Society & Culture, Cheryl Strayed, Advice, Steve Almond, Boston

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Buzz Bissinger owns more than 100 pairs of leather pants and over 200 pairs of leather gloves, having spent more than $600,000 on leather goods in the span of three years. Mr. Bissinger has a spending addiction, but when he published his confessional in GQ magazine he was labeled an “obsessive,” a “fancy man,” and a “shopaholic.” Only when he was admitted into rehab did many people understand that he was struggling with a debilitating behavioral addiction. Mr. Bissinger joins the Sugars to offer guidance to a letter-writer whose therapist and family …

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0:00.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:09.9	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:13.4	I'm Sevalman.
0:14.6	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:15.6	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:17.6	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:25.7	Yeah, some little sweet days with me.
0:32.7	I check my bell vibes every day.
0:41.7	Oh, and this sugar, using my way.
0:48.7	Hi Steve.
0:49.7	Hi Cheryl.
0:50.7	So today we're going to talk about spending addictions.
0:54.7	Yeah, you know, I'm so glad we're doing this because when it comes to spending addictions,
1:01.0	we have trouble recognizing that it's not just being a shopaholic and it's fun and so
1:05.4	forth.
1:06.4	There are real addictions out there.
1:07.6	Don't muddy the waters with your petty little problem, but it's not petty.
1:11.4	It's huge for some people as we know from our inbox.
1:14.7	Right.
1:15.7	And actually has, like any addiction has had many negative consequences.
1:20.4	Families destroyed.
1:22.0	And this debt's accrued.
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