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Evgeni Plushenko and Stephane Lambiel both mention their love of shopping on their webpages, and Stephane calls shopping his "addiction". One of Jeffrey Buttle's favorite books, listed on his webpage, is "Confessions of a Shopoholic."


That's interesting, debdelilah. Maybe compulsive shopping is an occupational hazard among figure skaters, lol. After all, they're traveling constantly, in unfamiliar surroundings, away from family and close friends much of the time. I can see how they could fall into the habit just to kill time and entertain themselves during the times they're not working.

Shopping usually bores me silly, but when I'm traveling I do find myself buying useless things. Then I get my credit card bill, and wonder why I thought I needed all that stuff :)

As for using my hard earned money to buy LV and sunglasses--all Johnny or any other skater owes me is a performance up to the best of their ability. After that, they can spend it on whatever they want. As long as it's not illegal (black market Louie?) I do hope for his sake that Johnny has a good financial planner, but that's his business.