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There is no single day that better represents the scourge of compulsive, compulsory consumption than Black Friday–historically the biggest shopping day of the year. The day compels many to camp out in front of stores in frigid temperatures to nab limited.
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I spend a good deal of time outside and since it’s typically sunny in New York (it really is), I usually wear sunglasses. And when not in the sun, my sunglasses are either on my head or hanging from the collar of.
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Child Entertained For 5 Minutes By Plastic Toy That Will Take 1,000 Years To Biodegrade Consumers Say Recession Changed Way They Blow Paycheck On Crap New Denim Jacket Bolsters Consumer Self-Confidence Cost Of Living Now Outweighs Benefits Study Finds Americans.
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For those who, like this author, loathe shopping, Amazon Prime is a major life-editor. It allows us to get the majority of non-perishable items sent to our houses in a day or two (and yes, Amazon Fresh and Fresh Direct.
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The good folks over at GOOD Magazine made this handy flowchart that provides various questions to ask oneself before buying something. It’s decidedly more polished and complex than the one we did a couple years ago–though that’s probably the point. Answering the Byzantine circuit.
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When we were putting together the first LifeEdited Apartment, we scoured countless stores looking for housewares that would perfectly fit into the space. We were looking for necessary things, compact things, classic things and, on occasion, offbeat things, which led.
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From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, there’s a certain logic to being materialistic. In the olden days, folks couldn’t just run to Target and pick up a hypo-allergenic full-sized duvet. You had a few shots a year to hunt and skin.
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According to one source, money spent on Christmas gifts make up 3-4% of people’s total annual income. And few modern mechanisms make this yuletide spending–and overspending–easier than credit cards. The greater ease of spending is, at least in part, due to.
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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies….It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.” ― Albert.
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While large swaths of the American population ready their sleeping bags for Black Friday, with its midnight store openings and 99 cent flat-screen TV’s, another population is sleeping through the night, honoring Buy Nothing Day (AKA “Occupy Xmas”). BND is.
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