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“I need to be buying all the time. I buy. I shop. I have a problem. As long as I buy it and I own it for a minute, I’m okay. I don’t need to possess it. As long as I hand over the money and get the thing, I’m happy.”— Alexis Hadjopulos, co-founder of Fairfax secondhand shop This Is Not Ikea, who obsessively scours over 100 estate and garage sales a week in search of new stock. Hey, whatever works. [LA Weekly]