Archive for the ‘Conscious Consumer’ Category
How the Holidays Got Me
So…it broke me…the holidays got me. My daughter didnt ask for much from Santa…just “a Sleeping Beauty” dress and a doll. Sweet. I found the dress on Ebay (at a fraction of new at the store…without the crowds!) and the mom that was selling it even expedited the shipping for me as somehow Christmas snuck [...]
To Buy or Not To Buy…
Do we really need all this stuff? Holiday commercialism has been exploding exponentially for years now. Big box stores and shopping malls have been pushing the limit when it comes to Black Friday, finally culminating this year in pepperspray-inducing shopping frenzies beginning before our Thanksgiving dinners have had a chance to be properly digested. Really? [...]
