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Retail Therapy on Substack

Rani Monson

When life stops making sense, we shop. Retail Therapy on Substack, by Rani Monson — honest writing about the money we throw at our angst. With humor. No affiliate links & no pretending I have it figured out.

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9/17/26: The Return Window with guest Chris Stanton

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3 Keepers & a Regret: Tiffanie Darke of It’s Not Sustainable

Tiffanie Darke of It’s Not Sustainable

3 Keepers and a Regret is a recurring series on Retail Therapy on Substack where I ask people I admire to name 3 things they’d fight to keep — bought, inherited, stolen — and 1 thing they regret...
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Dolly Assumed She'd Be Robbed

Nobody made up stories to hurt Dolly Parton. They made her bigger than the truth.

Last summer, my boss took his sabbatical from work. Once you’ve reached 10 consecutive years, you can take off 30 business days, which ends up being at least...

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The Return Window: It's Scary Because It's True

Author Laurie Frankel | Photo by Natalia Dotto

Thanks to Laurie Frankel for joining The Return Window — Live!

Did the video abruptly end? Yes. I somehow kicked myself out of the Substack Live. But, here’s Laurie’s playlist we discussed at...

11 days ago

3 Keepers & a Regret: Sam Baker of The Shift

Sam Baker of The Shift With Sam Baker This is what 52 looks like! (Sam, photographed in 2019, she thinks, by Claire Pepper.)

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  • Rani Monson

    Why do we shop when life stops making sense? That's Retail Therapy — personal essays by a former business reporter (yes, the WSJ kind) now surviving corporate tech by growing plants in the bathtub and doing yoga in the driveway.

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