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In reply to the discussion: The brain-wasting disease called consumerism ...... [View all]BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)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.