If you have a bunch of expensive stuff collecting dust in your closet or garage, it might be time to sit down with Spendster and repent for your consumer gluttony. A project from the National Endowment for Financial Education, Spendster asks folks to calculate how much they’ve spent on stuff they simply don’t need, and to share their stories. The videos already on the site are a lesson in humility that just might change your habits. And you can use the Spendster calculator to reveal the real cost of those impulse buys, expressed in credit card interest fees or how much you’d have if you bought into Google’s IPO or into an interest-bearing savings account.

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Looks like Bang and Olufsen might have a harder time getting out of the cellphone game than it thought — especially now that Kanye’s throwing cash at it. Yep, Yeezy just picked up the year-old Serenata in Singapore, and he’s thoughtfully posted up some unboxing pics for us. We thought the Samsung-built handset was a hot little number when we played with it back in January at CES, but we’ve moved on since then — it’s a triband dumbphone, after all. We’ve got some hotter gear to show you, ‘Ye — call anytime.

[Thanks, Philip]

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Click on the “Show Details” link at the top of any feed inside Google Reader, and you’ll get a bar chart of how often new posts arrive, and how many you read—this is in addition to the overall subscription information you can get by hitting the Trends link on the top of the left sidebar.

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