Since the start of the year, I have been documenting my attempts to live with less. The latest post is about how we are encouraged to buy things we don't need and why I can't get rid of my mother's last bottle of Miss Dior.
"we may get a buzz for a minute after buying these products, but this feeling doesn’t last. It would be disastrous for the advertising industry if feelings of happiness and satisfaction caused by the consumption they encourage weren’t as fleeting as they are. In fact, research has shown that the “higher a country’s ad spend was in one year, the less satisfied its citizens were a year or two later. Their conclusion: Advertising makes us unhappy.” As advertisers are so good at what they do, I guess that means buying things doesn’t make us happy either. Duh. Guess what, in the US, advertising spending is significantly larger than any other country. And we definitely aren’t at the top of the happiness index."
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