How to Shop (and Not Shop) Like a Thai in Bangkok

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Nov 29th! How will you celebrate the season this
year? No, we're not talking about Christmas. We're talking about
the Thai government's annual shopping stimulus
program, this time called "Shop For The Nation" for
2017. It started on Saturday, November the 11th, and
it runs through December the 3rd. We'll cover this
program in detail (and maybe poke just a wee bit of fun at it) as
we give you all the details so you can get up to ฿15,000 off your
taxable income next year. Yes, Bangkok expats pay taxes. At least
our two families pay taxes. We're not talking to you freeloaders
out there. Get a job.Sticking with the shopping
theme, every expat eventually starts assimilating into the
culture. You have to buy stuff in your new country, and your own
personal history influences the things you buy. Some of your
everyday purchases will seem odd to any of your friends and
family back home. And some things you hunt down to buy locally
would make some of your natural born citizen neighbors wonder
just why the heck anyone would want that. We put our
own purchases to the test, discussing the most and the least Thai
things the each of us has purchased while we've lived here, and
exactly what our friends -- both local and back home -- probably
think about those purchases. Ane we'll even give you the answers:
The most Thai things we own are a Buddha shelf and Thai pillows,
and the least Thai things we own are licorice and a top sheet. If
those answers make no sense, give the show a listen as we
good-naturedly (?) poke each other for our answers.
Love, Loathe, or Leave

If you think our choices of products in this episode stink,
just shove a stick of camphor up your nose. That's the plastic
tube or tub you see people sniffing as you go about your day in
Thailand. What's that all about? Why do they do it? And what do
we think about it? Listen in and find out.
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