With the growing paranoia and the rising wealth of the upper middle-class, hidden rooms are now starting to become commonplace in more and more homes around the world and all we can say is Finally! Ever since we were kids watching Scooby Doo and Webster we’ve wanted a nice little hidden game room where we could jump around on a trampoline and make as much noise as we wanted without anyone really knowing where to find us. Though, with the recent incident in Austria, I’ll admit that as with anything extremely cool and nerdy, there will be someone to come a long and ruin it soon and you can guarantee Fox News will be there to hype it.

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While many see shopping as a normal, everyday activity, there are many who understand that sometimes it’s a bit more sinister than that. Many stores today utilize various psychological tricks in order to coerce the potential buyer into parting with their hard-earned cash, often times in exchange for something they weren’t really interested in purchasing in the first place. Known as Architectural Psychology, companies are spending millions in order to design their stores utilizing tricks to make you spend more money. Thankfully, a group of consumer-advocates have put together a small A-Z list of architectural tricks that stores use, so you, the consumer can learn a little more about the ways your favorite electronics or grocery store may be trying to manipulate you.

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Buyer beware is an old adage, but, it usually involves buyers being aware of scams or offers that were too good to be true. Lately it’s taken on a different meaning. Many buyers now must beware of the fine print (and even the fine print’s fine print) so easily concealed on just about every unit of packaged merchandise sold. Enter consumer advocate MousePrint.org, a consumer-rights and advocacy blog, focusing less on the marketing-speak and more on the fine-print, exposing consumer goods manufacturers’ sometimes abusive usage of ‘mouseprint’ to basically nullify or negate the large headline offers that all consumers are flooded with on a daily basis.

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