Consumerism is a problem today in this world. People are consuming mass produced items from “super” stores. These stores do not pay their employees well and the mass production manufactures use cheap labor in foreign countries. We then go buy and support all this. Back
in the day people used to make what they needed and they turned out just fine, happily living their lives. Why don’t you make some things for yourself and not just run out to the store to pick up the item?

You could knit a hat instead of buying one. You could grow potatoes in your garden and make potato chips. And maybe someday it will be legal to share music online and have no digital right management system in place.

My source artist for this piece was Kate Bingaman. She draws one thing that she buys each day and publishes them online and in her zine entitled Obsessive Consumption. The theme was “consumerism”.

I would like to leave you with this quote from William Ralph Inge.
“The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.”