Consumerism--let's buy everything we want and not think about the consequences..

Yes, I knew this lady that did that very thing, she was always buying stuff, stuff she didn't need. It was things that she just wanted because she could buy it. I couldn't believe what her daughter in law told me, she passed away about a month ago, and they had to go thru all her things. Her daughter in law said that when they were dividing her things between her, and the lady's daughters, they got to the last 15 or 20 items she said she had to stop, she couldn't take anymore, there was way too much stuff. Even now, they aren't finished, the lady had bought three houses in the town that we live in, and they are still full of stuff she had bought. She even built on two rooms to her house and they are full of stuff. I don't think she hardly used anything she bought, she just stored it up in her houses, but she did keep journals of everything she bought over the past years, kind of like an inventory list. I guess she just liked to shop, I don't think she had any limits to what she bought or thought she needed. Now its all left up to her family to figure out what to do with it all. I've seen some of it, and its not cheap things, fine china, expensive dishes and jewelry, and stuff like that.

we don't need to buy stuff we won't need,it is sometimes not right enough to own something we won't even use.in some degree, it is a kind of waste.we had better avoid these behavours,to save money and energy to some useful and meaning things, creating some good that can satisfy the needer.

I think that is a personal decision...I wouldn't tell anyone not to buy something as long as they are paying the bill....but if they asked me to lend them the money then I would have a say....but really I don't make that my business.

Hi PearlGrace, It is a very materialistic world that we live in today. I go without until I have saved up for a certain item that is needed and I don't care what Mrs Jones next door has as I recently lived without carpet for over two years before I had saved enough to have the hall stairs loung and landing all done together. I got a new TV because the old one broke but if it still works I do not replace with the latest gadget at all. Don't get me wrong though I would love a laptop and the most up to date computer but there is so much more to life than these items. We have got a Wii which my son wanted and I used some of his Christmas and birthday money to get it but it only gets used about twice a week or when I first got an indoor bowling and pizza party with friends. Huggles. Ellie :D

pearlgrace I love to shop too ,but only for things I can afford and really need.some women are shopaholics and cannot stop shopping. they buy so much stuff they never even use it then have fifty pairs of shoes and maybe can only wear three or four. Nobody should been a lotof stuff they dont need or use just to be shopping. this is a waste of time, space and money. Better to leave some of that money in a savingsaccount, much better.

i think consumerism is still okay.. it's the mode of payment that matters.. i think if you dun have the ability to pay it you shouldn't use credit "IF your head is not big enough for the hat, don't put it on.."