Before I turned off the TV to go to bed last night around 11 PM, I caught two breaking news stories:
1. People have been lining up at Best Buy in Burbank since Wednesday morning, and they are getting excited to go inside.
2. Several people were injured at a Walmart in Los Angeles after a woman sprayed them with pepper spray when they got near the merchandise she was going after; ambulances were having a hard time getting through the parking lot because of all the traffic.
Both of these stories are fairly disconcerting to me. Whether or not you enjoy Thanksgiving, this is one of the incredibly rare holidays where virtually everyone has the day off. Why not enjoy that time off instead of stressing yourself out over a new TV?
Perhaps more to the point, why do you need a new TV in the first place?
The reality is, you probably don't. The average American household has more TVs than people. Data from a completely non-scientific study, consisting of my living in America for nearly 29 years, indicates that the average American household as more crap lying around than they know what to do with. So why this obsession with buying new things? And why do we feel that taking on debt is a viable option?
It's just not healthy!
More to come.
