Consumerism Quote

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."

-Henry David Thoreau

This quote goes strait to the heart of consumerism. Men and women so caught up, addicted, and set on looking for happiness in things we can buy in stores rather then finding happiness, what we're all looking for, in beautiful contentment in one's self. This quote is the healer of all consumerists. Sell your things, leave yourself, and find yourself.

The Trickery in Selling Things

One of the most popular forms of trickery in the recent economic slump is slightly changing the size of a the product rather then keeping the size and raising the price. By doing this companies convince their customers that their not changing, the prices have not moved. Yet, in order to deal with the recession they shrink the product. You pay more for less yet unknowingly because the price has not moved. Customers are, in the end, spending more money for less product.

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