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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeti wheeled cooler[/quote]

Grown / mature men have a [b]healthy disdain for our consumption-crazy society[/b].  We Americans spend our money on junk made in China (a polluter of the environment, and a geopolitical adversary.  Then have so much crap that we need storage units for it. And then our kids are burdened with dumping it all when we’re off to assisted living.

I’d look at a Yeti cooler and think… great, one more THING that I have to find room to store in the garage.

[b]Go with consumables[/b]. Buy a $$$ prime rib to cook for dinner.  Buy him a nice scotch or bourbon if he drinks.  [/quote]

Lol, ok. Nice attempt at virtue signaling.[/quote]

LOL ok that’s true. Bad wordsmithing in my part. My point is go with consumables like food or wine or “an experience” if that’s his thing. Something designed to be consumed and it’s gone and doesn’t end up getting tossed in the charity shop drop box a year later.

Instead of consumption-driven society I should have said “junk driven”. The stuff we buy from China (as they pollute the air), then we give to each other (instead of donating that money to a food bank or women’s shelter), then it goes to a charity shop. And even THEN people often don’t want it, so it gets bundled up and shipped to Africa… where little African kids get to play with Americans’ broken toys and wear Americans’ faded and torn clothing.

If space aliens landed and asked why we do this every December, we’d say we’re doing it to celebrate God providing us a way to be saved from our sinful nature. 🙂

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