Barbie, the doll who turns 52 years old this year, has held 125 careers over her lifetime, including architect, dentist, and Army officer. When I do that I’m called an underachiever with no career path, for Barbie it means over 1 billion people have bought her.

An online gambling site has bought some of Michael Jackson’s hair for $10,871 and plans to have it made into a roulette ball manufactured “to the highest professional standards, ensuring it will be eligible for use at any licensed casino’s roulette table.” Apparently more appropriate body parts were unavailable.

According to the National Retail Federation (motto: “United we spend, divided we fail to make our projections”), U.S. consumers will spend $6 billion on Christmas decorations this year, the most in at least seven years. That could buy 600 million strings of tree lights, 7,228,915,662 packages of silver tinsel, or pay off .04% of the national debt and have enough left over for an “Occupy the chimney” ornament for the top of your tree.