"This positive spending is not a reflection of some sort of internalized secret sense of confidence that consumers have."
    • @[email protected]
      4•9 months ago

      Someone much smarter than me explained how you don’t own stuff, it ends up owning you. This is outside of necessities.

      You buy some decorations? Now you have to dust them, keep a place for them in your home. There are all kinds of examples, and collecting trinkets and oddities will never make you happy or fulfilled.

        • @[email protected]
          1•9 months ago

          Well damn, I wanted to talk about the neat things made during Covid when the hardware stores were closed.

          It was fun modeling household items.