Welcome to all-consuming.com, a document of one person's consumer expenditures, with photographs and relevant data, for the calendar year of 2001.
Below are my most recent purchases, as of December 31, 2001. Please go to the Archive to view previous shopping days.
Click on any small image to see an enlargement, anywhere on the site. The small pic may approximate a thumbnail, or may only be a detail. It's arbitrary.
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Total Price: $54.02
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| Description: 2 books: Manhattan Unfurled, by Matteo Pericoli and New York Vertical, by Horst Hamann |
| Time: 02:37 PM |
| Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art Shop, 113 Prince St, NYC |
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Comments: was given Manhattan Unfurled by my aunt and loved it so much, I decided to get a copy of it for my dad, who loves NYC & lives very far from his old home; the other book is just for more New York images for myself
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Total Price: $38.90
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| Description: lunch with MJ & Jeff, my treat: spinach quiche & latt￩ for Jeff, leek & goat cheese cr￨pe & coffee americano for MJ, and Le Gaminﾙ cr￨pe and grand moka for me |
| Time: 04:12 PM |
| Location: Le Gamin Caf￩, 27 Bedford St, NYC |
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Comments: best lunch & coffee around; so one of my favorite NYC haunts is now a local chain - guess thatﾒs OK, because they are not evil, like another national chain coffee spot we know & loathe
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Total Price: $96.34
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| Description: 2 books: Crosstown, by Helen Levitt and True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey |
| Time: 04:38 PM |
| Location: Three Lives & Company, 154 W. Tenth St, NYC |
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Comments: one for me and one for dad, again (the limited edition photography book is mine, for professional interest purposes [yeah right])
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Total Price: $27.29
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| Description: magic book, magic trick, light-up yo-yo, purple slinky, Xmas gift bags |
| Time: 05:31 PM |
| Location: House of Cards, 23 Eighth Ave, NYC |
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Comments: last minute extra gifts for my niece & nephew (sometimes four gifts are just not enough - Iﾒm trying to maintain my status as the "cool aunt")
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Total Price: $18.00
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| Description: drinks for MJ, Jeff, Michael & myself: 3 beers and one Manhattan cocktail |
| Time: 06:00 PM |
| Location: WXOU Radio, 558 Hudson St, NYC |
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Comments: drinks for all my friends! celebrating everything from being alive to the end of an era; guess we were there during happy hour, because alcohol in NYC usually isnﾒt this affordable
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Total Price: $4.50
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| Description: taxicab |
| Time: 07:55 PM |
| Location: from Greenwich Village to my brotherﾒs place in Nolita (North of Little Italy), NYC |
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Comments: dropped the heavy bag of books off, and changed for a lovely evening out to bring a close to an interesting year: going to dinner, then a party at friendsﾒ place
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Total Price: $155.00
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| Description: dinner with MJ: filet mignon with potato and asparagus for me, veal with winter vegetables for MJ, Pellegrino water, mesclun salad, duck soup, goat cheese salad, coffee, Marquise au chocolat & 2 glasses of Perrier Jouet champagne shared |
| Time: 10:43 PM |
| Location: Restaurant Provence, 38 Macdougal St, NYC |
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Comments: in search of a delicious steak on New Yearﾒs Eve, had no reservations, running through the city trying to find a restaurant that would actually seat us - so happy to have landed here, absolutely perfect last meal of the year (yes, Iﾒm a francophile)
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Total Price: $5.20
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| Description: taxicab |
| Time: 11:12 PM |
| Location: from Soho (Sixth Ave @ Prince) to East Village (Seventh St @ First Ave), NYC |
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Comments: last purchase of the year, and this project (not so ironically, itﾒs the same as the very first!) final comment: Thank God itﾒs over, and anybody want a digital camera?
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About this website: There are no ads nor any financial incentive behind branded items mentioned here. This is simply one American consumer's experience.
www.all-consuming.com will no longer be updated. Thank you for your confidence in me as a consumer. This project spanned 2001, and finished 11:59:59pm 12/31/2001 in New York City.
View the Archive to get the picture daily, or view the Mosaic to get the whole picture [Note: the mosaic is best suited for fast connections or very patient people.] Go to Statistics to massage the data or to be appalled and freak out, just like I did. More statistics have been added recently. They provide a look at the project figures with & without the house purchase, which, oddly, had skewed the numbers a bit.
Be sure to visit About to find out what this is all..., Other to see something else, and of course there are curious Links, as well as nice people thanked & repetitive Contact info (see below). *note* Some day I plan to have all of the Other pages on the Other Other page, but that will have to wait till I figure out how to do it.
If you or anyone you know are consumers, and like accounting, photography, shopping, web design and website maintenance, please contact me: all_consuming@hotmail.com. I am interested in talking with potential contributors to www.all2consuming.com, the sequel.
For the record, no animals or people were harmed in the creation of this website. Only my wallet was euthanized.
The End (for now)
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