I try so very hard to think about each purchase I make for many reasons. Spiritually I don’t want to be cluttered and to form attachments to so many completely unimportant and meaningless objects. Environmentally, obviously, I don’t want to contribute to the waste and destruction of our planet. And economically and politically speaking I don’t want to be part of the machine. I don’t want to let the advertisements fool me and guilt me into buying something, or make me feel insecure so I buy something, etc, etc. I want to remove their power so I don’t buy.

It helps that we are always broke!