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BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
18. I am thinking a lot more about quality these days
Fri Nov 23, 2012, 11:50 PM
Nov 2012

I just have little use for the mass market crap that you find in the Big Boxes.

Some of the happiest people I know have small simple apartments, basic furniture, and simple wardrobe, and an interesting lifestyle. They go to plays, concerts, nice restaurants, but just don't have any need to fill their lives with crap.

Awhile back I wanted to get a decent carpet cleaner and I honestly couldn't find one anywhere locally. The stores all had the same low-end garbage that would do a crappy job and break after 4 uses. I ended up buying it from a store 800 miles away. That is really a shame. That is what the big boxes have done to us. There used to be smaller, locally owned stores that would have products like that.

My family has agreed to not buy any gifts this year and just enjoy each other's company. Now there is a gift.

I can barely stand to watch teevee anymore. What do you see today? 24 x 7 coverage of morons fighting each other to load up on complete garbage at the closest big box.

I agreed to participate in a Nielson teevee usage survey this past week. In the entire week, I only logged a couple halves of football games and a few minutes of one of the evening MSNBC programs -- which of course was just babbling on about this horrible "fiscal cliff". I don't need that garbage. Speak the truth or else I am going to turn you off. When it came down to it, there was nothing on teevee worth the effort it would have taken to write it in my Nielson diary.

We need to examine our lives from the ground up.

Du rec. Nt xchrom Nov 2012 #1
LOL post of the day limpyhobbler Nov 2012 #2
Other countries must look at the USA and get nauseated. loudsue Nov 2012 #3
Other countries have their own embarrassments slackmaster Nov 2012 #27
I don't get it either. femmocrat Nov 2012 #4
That sounds like an illness. tblue Nov 2012 #7
Sounds like a hoarder. CrispyQ Nov 2012 #22
You have to make people feel like they are out of it if they don't undeterred Nov 2012 #5
bad example. I ignored my friend's suggestion to buy an iphone aletier_v Nov 2012 #15
But I AM out of it! this is temporary. Nov 2012 #38
Doing my best to stay off the mouse wheel. tblue Nov 2012 #6
K & R Care Acutely Nov 2012 #8
K&R Carolina Nov 2012 #9
"THE EEEE VILE ...MICKEY MOUSE!" L0oniX Nov 2012 #10
That's One Way to Lose Some Weight.... triplepoint Nov 2012 #11
The wife and I are staying home from wednesday to monday bearssoapbox Nov 2012 #12
I hope your wife's good health is your Christmas present lunatica Nov 2012 #26
What's even more embarrassing is the violence associated with Black Friday. Initech Nov 2012 #13
Third world is probably the wrong thing to call it lunatica Nov 2012 #28
Too much "reality Teevee". loudsue Nov 2012 #33
Yep some of our fellow peps have gone mad. zeemike Nov 2012 #14
You've got to FIGHT! For your RIGHT! To BUY!! BUY, BUY, BUT or DIE, DIE, DIE !!! reACTIONary Nov 2012 #16
My mind immediately jumps to... ReRe Nov 2012 #17
I am thinking a lot more about quality these days BlueStreak Nov 2012 #18
This: CrispyQ Nov 2012 #23
Congratulations on the no gifts for Christmas choice lunatica Nov 2012 #29
And what is wrong with expecting a retail industry to meet our needs 365 days a year? BlueStreak Nov 2012 #32
Rec'd, your posts are my favorite marmar just1voice Nov 2012 #19
Thanks for that.....I too went to the Farmer's Market today marmar Nov 2012 #37
Phones are a big deal. Ask someone whose phone has just died and see if they miss it or not. dkf Nov 2012 #20
We did just fine for years and years before cell phones were even invented. totodeinhere Nov 2012 #24
This is a perfect example of a "created need". bvar22 Nov 2012 #25
Does DU create people disassociated from one another? dkf Nov 2012 #42
hilarious, isn't it? Skittles Nov 2012 #41
that is just fucking sad Skittles Nov 2012 #40
Amen. Fire Walk With Me Nov 2012 #21
. snagglepuss Nov 2012 #30
I love Star Trek, but the whole "memorabilia" thing is one of the worst examples of this. arcane1 Nov 2012 #31
I think now people do it for investments... SomethingFishy Nov 2012 #36
Can't fix stupid, but you can fix prices Blue Owl Nov 2012 #34
It's no wonder so many people are in serious debt. SheilaT Nov 2012 #35
I see it all the time Skittles Nov 2012 #39
K&R 99Forever Nov 2012 #43
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