Remember that you do not have to buy the thing because they tell you to.
Even if it is on sale, if you do not need it you do not need to buy it.
We do not need to keep to the urgency schedule of corporations that peddle to us so that we help them meet their
end-of-year profit goals.
They need us, we do not need them.
Make corporations bend and buckle by claiming your own timeline according to YOUR needs.
They need us, we do not need them.
Part of our daily work is rehabilitating ourselves from capitalism’s addiction culture, and dopamine reinforcement training from consumption. Instead, we can train ourselves to feel gratitude when we have not purchased something successfully.
We can feel the reward in another
year of holding off on waste. Waste that directly contributes to climate catastrophe, the exploitation of the Global South, and an endless pit in our insatiably conditioned stomachs. We can become champions of endurance.
We can learn to hold on to items until they do not need to come back around to us as vintage for us to recognize their value. We can hold and vintage-ize them by mirroring the true and most valuable vintage existence we know, the Earth.
Before you toss anything, remind yourself where it ends up. Nothing disappears. All of our trash waste is still somewhere on this planet or in orbit.
Before you buy anything, ask yourself at least three questions:
Do I need it?
Do I need it now?
Why do I want it?
While we are learning to give ourselves grace as humans, we must give our Earth even more grace for holding all of us.
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