The Three Rs vs How many shopping days until Christmas?

Let’s see if the two topics below go together:

First - only 66 shopping days ‘til Christmas

And only 66 days until the inevitable Boxing Day Blow-out sales too, excessive consumerism’s finest hour.

Second - I underlined the following in The Virtuous Consumer [see Read This - side panel] about the 3 Rs, a topic I’ve touched on in my last two columns:

It’s like a jingle that almost becomes meaningless when you hear it once too often.

But the three Rs - reduce, reuse, recycle - might be all we really need.


["What do we really need?": click here]

Nobody likes this reduce R very much. But, frankly, it’s by far the most important.

Buy less stuff. period. (pg. 104)

Do the two topics belong together?

On the one hand businesses are gearing up to sell, sell, sell the gaudiest pile of stuff ever in the history of man, on the other we probably don’t need 90 per cent of it.

Conclusion: Both topics deserve equal amounts of valuable thinking time.

We have 66 days to consider what we really need for Christmas.

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