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[quote=Anonymous]“Live and let live,” OK, but hyper-consumption is harmful to our planet, our wallets, and our society. I am so tired of grown adults who are perpetuating and reveling in over-consumption, glorifying it on social media, making it a problem for other people.

Wow, we get it, you not only decorate for Halloween and pass out Halloween candy, you must make it normalized mass consumption by starting “Boo Baskets” in your neighborhood, organizing multiple trunk-or-treats for kids who already can safely participate in Halloween in their neighborhoods, and generally making Halloween a Christmas-level holiday.

Not only do you go to Disney, but you post lead-up videos of you packing and doing a grand reveal and detail every nanosecond of the actual trip on social media, including buying custom family T-shirts and crap, then getting stickers of your Disney Family for your car, just more more more to end up in landfills.

Christmas, forget about it. Jesus is as real to your children as the Easter Bunny is. Over-decorating, over-posting, over-buying, over-wrapping, forced fun in your office and neighborhood, just more more more. Elf on the Shelf, because wasting food and toothpaste is soooo funny when families are struggling to buy basic groceries. You live in the Capitol an care nothing for the poors in the Districts, we get it.

Your kids birthday party complete with an Amazon wish list, hiring someone to help stage a sleepover, then posting the pics all over social media so all the parents and kids who weren’t invited can see just how very special your little princess is. (And yes, my kid was invited, and went, and I am MORTIFIED that there are pictures of her in her pajamas on the Internet without my consent, more from the perspective of feeling bad for the girls and parents who weren’t invited than anything else.)

It’s just gross. It’s all too much, and a lot of it is driven by miserable people who aren’t actually satisfied with their lives, so they over-consume, post about how fabulous they are, then raise kids to think More is More and Look at Me. [/quote]

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