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Obsessive Consumption December 02, 2006
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Kate Bingaman has been hand drawing her credit card statements and selling them on her Web site for the past two years. Also, everyday she makes pen and ink drawings of something she bought that day: a Diet Coke, a pretzel, socks maybe. And she sells those too. We'll talk to Bingaman about her obsession with conspicuous consumption and our own relationship to money and consumer goods.