Microsoft is keeping its cards close to its chest, and has declined to comment on how, exactly, it intends to develop its patent into something that people will actually want to buy.

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Enter Lindsey and Steve (Annie Parisse and Jeremy Shamos), a well-heeled young white couple who want to buy the Younger house and turn it into something bigger, fancier and tackier.

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That's something we all have to buy into.

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Charge everyone less tax and let them decide how to spend their income whether to buy or rent, and, more basically, whether to put their money into real estate or something else, such as automobiles, art, boats, wine, or travel.

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It could make it too easy for some people to buy something spontaneously or throw a few more items into the shopping cart.

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He must have done something right because I carried this lesson into my adult life, enabling me to buy my first piece of property before the age of 25.

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Big city dwellers do the same thing only in reverse when they take a drive into the country to shop in a quaint little town in search of something unique to buy or an off-the-beaten path restaurant.

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Easy access to discount shopping is so commonplace in the US that sometimes if you walk into a department store and buy something at full retail you feel like chump, knowing it will soon be on sale.

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