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Fri 10 Oct 2008Farewell to hot stone massages and doggie dentists
The boom is over and the purse is empty: it's time to rinse out plastic bags and collect Green Shield Stamps again, writes Orna Mulcahy
PENNY-PINCHING has begun in earnest. The loose change that used to clutter up the dressing table is now being used for lunch, and lunch has been downgraded from something Mediterranean-sounding to an egg sandwich from the canteen. Even that is being pared back, the filling spread thinly as though it were some rare delicacy.
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