Shopping, Cards, and Shiny Things

How is it possible the general population is so easily manipulated, so easily deceived.

Things that are both shiny and non functional are worth more than other things.
Furthermore, if you don’t buy into this idea, you will be chastised and thought to be cheap, classless, and having poor taste.

A guy proposes marriage and there are ring expectations because of what the symbol represents and commitment. What a bunch of nonsense. A young couple starting out and has little in the way of income should not be led to believe a shiny thing that costs way way more than they can afford and serves no functional purpose is something they must have, even when it requires a high interest credit rate and puts them in debt.

Rarely does the jeweler point out that it is a must to have 5 supports for a diamond because it only has 4 and one stud break, oops.

Shiny must be really important.
Everybody thinks its valuable so it is, but it really isn’t.

Incidentally, capitalistic countries like ourselves bass the dollar on a bunch of gold bars that suit almost no purpose other than wearing to show status.

It’s Shiny but doesn’t do anything except sit, or decorate, and it’s heavy.

Occasion cards. Someone got everyone to think you were a bad person if you didn’t sent people a birthday card, a Christmas card and more recently cards for a whole new bunch of invented holidays that didn’t use to exist but do now.

Someone has an occasion, you go to the store, look at a bunch of cards that all cost too much, write two to ten words, and mail it.
They read it, throw the envelope away, and keep the card with a whole bunch of other cards they feel to guilty to dispose of and never look at them again.

The cards cost like five bucks.

Let’s go shopping. What are we shopping for. I don’t know, I’m not there yet.
gee.

It is amazing how many people do just this for no reason other than immediate gratification and the belief that it is an appropriate use of time.

Almost no one can afford this behavior, but many seem unable to alter what has become a mindless lifestyle socialization choice. They do it because their friends do it, their families do it, and they have always done it.

Shopping is not something to do when they are bored or want to hang out.

Shopping is something someone else needs you to do so they earn money.

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