Consume your way to misery
There is a lot of tragic events and problems you can’t control or stop from happening. Consuming your way to misery is not one of them. Consuming your way to misery is the habitual collecting of stuff to create a so-called identity. The stuff itself never fills this insatiable bottomless pit inside, s they keep on shopping to happiness.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so common, people buying stuff based on automatic pilot knee-jerk spending.
Crap people buy to consume their way to misery
- They need to own DVD’s (even films they are only going to watch once, they seem to have to own every movie they ever see)
- They replace things that work fine
- They replace things they only need a minor fix
- They shop for stuff beyond food every week
- They go to the movies several times a week (and aren’t reviewers)
- Buy coffees out all the time (or any beverage)
- Use taxis when they could have walked or waited another 3 minutes for bus (or more importantly could have been more organized and gotten their a few minutes earlier)
- Eat out; even when they don’t want to, it’s habitual. Food they don’t want but are used to.
- Buy all books they just want to read once (I understand the want to do this, but you can’t own all the books you want to read that what libraries and friends are for)
- They go out with no idea of budget
- They have no way or have not built up the skills to think twice before buying anything just I want therefore I need.
- Second hand is something they scoff at all levels, after all they are worth more than that, and they are the buyers.
- They believe by buying a new car will mean they are finally looking after themselves.
I am sure they’re other things people buy to consume themselves to misery, I just can’t think of them.
Consume your way to misery would make a country song or sad tragic film, just replace drug use for consumerism and you get the sad tragic victimy end to the person.
What’s wrong with it? This is normal, what’s wrong with it, is opportunity cost, Except those people consuming their way to misery not only forgo one alternative their constant crap habit, means they never even get to make the decision. They buy, often get in debt, or at best have something small, but unfortunately nothing of substance, they forgoing precious experiences and important life-changing decisions to habitually shopping.
They will totally and utterly hate this article. Way to close to home. They will think I’m cheap and no fun. But you need to question your idea of fun. If spending is the only way to get that good warm feeling of satisfaction, something is very wrong.
