Against Oniomania

[cherydactyl]

oniomania (O-nee-uh-MAY-nee-uh, -MAYN-yuh) noun: Compulsive shopping; excessive, uncontrollable desire to buy things.

I just finished reading Not Buying It: My year without shopping. Wow. I don't think it possible to go whole hog on this project with kids unless you drop out of the culture or become amish or something, but definitely food for thought. On the other hand: imagine raising a daughter without Disney Princesses anywhere in sight!!! Oh, yes, please!

Highly reccomended.

Comments

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

That does sound interesting. Ed immediately wondered what she did for food?

I think I'll try to get out of grad school and settled down before I try making such a drastic change but we've been trying *very slowly* to move slightly in that direction. Not very succesfully yet but one tiny step at a time. :-)

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

The made an exception for "necessities," chiefly food. But the discussion of necesary vs luxury food was a recurrent theme, as you can imagine. Prepared food was a no-no, pretty much. The couple in question argued about whether wine was a necesity a few times, and the guy ended up making his own beer and wine by the end.

[yogaswirl.livejournal.com]

I would definitely have to wait to do this after our wedding & upcoming move next year...but thanks for the book rec :) I've been trying to think about those "make a smaller footprint on the Earth" things lately...