Stuff is the lifeblood of the American Dream, apparently. Our culture inundates with the clarion call to buy, to spend. Whether we NEED the proffered product is a secondary, if not tertiary, purchasing determinant.
I fail to understand this seemingly unique-to-Americans drive to consumption. People buy material goods they don’t need in order to fill houses that are too big and then feel pressure to move to ever-larger houses in order to perpetuate the cycle. And then there’s an entire industry devoted to organizing all of this excess and unused stuff!
I issue a call to inaction. Free yourself from the endless consumption wheel. Be a bad consumer. Don’t be owned by your stuff.
This philosophy is freeing for me. I don’t make endless lists of things to purchase, rather I actively avoid shopping and endeavor to buy as little as possible.
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