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RE: Stop Buying Stuff You DON'T Need!
That is so true. I always end up buying duplicate stuff when I go fir shopping. My brother always warn me but i am lije please let me buy haha
That is so true. I always end up buying duplicate stuff when I go fir shopping. My brother always warn me but i am lije please let me buy haha
Ha ha! Yes, @suf1an you are so right.. the compulsion to buy, buy, buy is something of an addictive habit isn't it?
In some respects we can be forgiven (just a little perhaps!) when we consider the power that advertising has upon our psyches, something we are exposed to every minute of every day, through TV, radio, our cell phones, social media, main stream media, billboards and so on. To a certain extent THIS has created an indoctrinated form of consumerism which runs VERY deep and the sole aim is to increase the profits of large multinational companies at the cost of our precious planetary resources.
I stand completely in support of this article by @kaylinart and offer huge thanks for the kick in the bum I needed to declutter, recycle and give away the contents of my junk cupboard...
Now does anyone want an old mop and bucket (I have carpets!!!) a box of broken crockery (was planning to do some Gaudi mosaic style pots...mmm like that's gonna happen?) and some old circa 1990s christmas decorations?
Why do we buy so much rubbish we don't need, with money we often don't have (credit!!!) and count our worth in terms of our possessions, little realising that the possessions often possess US! Modern living creates this vacuum like hole in us which cannot be filled with material things, and yet paradoxically the capitalist consumer model would have us beLIEve otherwise!
Power to @kaylinart for saying all of the above...you steeming well rock!
my father did it too