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The latest in financial engineering has brought a new way to pay for things you can’t actually afford.
A growing number of retailers are offering customers the choice of paying by installments, even for small purchases. A typical payment plan for smaller purchases like cosmetics or clothes would be a series of four bi-weekly payments, with no interest charges or fees. If you pay on time, your payments might simply be the cost of your purchase divided by the number of installments you make.