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Laura Beck

I Tried the ‘Buy It for Life’ Method — Here’s What Saved Me the Most

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Stephanie S., a 38-year-old marketing manager in Chicago with two kids ages 7 and 10, was tired of constantly replacing things. Cheap backpacks that ripped after one school year, winter coats that lost their warmth by February, kitchen gadgets that broke within months — the cycle felt both endless and expensive.

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