Hey everyone happy Friday it's another episode of the podcast she thinks just bought it the podcast where we tell you what to buy next and today I am

joined by Karen Kjo she is a business and culture reporter based in New York City.

She's been published everywhere, notably 538, G.C.

GQ, Time, Interview, Toronto Life, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

You have been around. You haven't been around. She's giving me a

thumbs up right now. She thinks Costco is the best place for anxious people to shop.

I would agree with her there. And her best purchase was a gently used

dice and vacuum cleaner for $50 and you put in parentheses twice

tell me about it. So I've purchased both the roller ball, uh-huh and the

cordless vacuum each for $50 used?

Like on Craigslist?

No, it was via Columbia students who

are fleeing town after graduation.

And they were just like, I've used it in my tiny studio apartment or my one bedroom and by the way

would you would you like to take four hundred dollars worth of other stuff for free and

I'm like sure you know how many tote bags did I bring today and and the funny thing is my mother came to visit me in December

And she saw she's like oh my god. It's real. You've bragged about this for so long I can't believe it

actually exists it's like it retails for four hundred dollars a fifty dollar

dies and vacuum is like that's the thing that you're gonna like leave in your will to somebody you know what I mean like and

someone that you like really love and that you really trust because that like it's a

great vacuum to have I got a stick vac on my wedding registry because I was like the only

reason to get married is to like register for my mom was like why have you registered for

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