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Consumerism is ruining holidays in America


Consumerism is ruining holidays in America - The Pirate's Eye

During holidays in America, companies experience massive increases in sales as consumers flood stores to find gifts for friends and family.

Commodification of holidays, excessive consumerism damage Earth

While the U.S. is already considered a consumerist country, the holiday season exacerbates this reputation during the months of November and ...

Column: Consumerism isn't just ruining the holidays, it's ... - The Oracle

Column: Consumerism isn't just ruining the holidays, it's ruining the planet ... A fallen Christmas tree perfectly represents our departure from ...

American consumerism/capitalism has totally ruined the holidays.

American consumerism/capitalism has totally ruined the holidays. ... I know this has been a well known fact for years, but the last couple of ...

Holiday Consumerism: To Spend or Not to Spend - The Monarch

Though being in the shopping mentality is easy this time of year, the negative effects of American consumerism during the holidays outweigh the ...

How Consumer Culture Ruined Christmas | by Ewelina Adamczak

The mere task of holiday shopping becomes a stress-ridden experience for many. It becomes more of an act of duty rather than an act of gratitude ...

Our obsession with consumerism is ruining the holidays

Not only is this obsession the antithesis of Christmas' holy message, it's a destructive cycle from which it's hard to break free. So, when you ...

How Consumer Behavior Changes During the Holiday Season

The holidays — a season of joy, stress eating, and financial ruin. Each year, consumers morph into tinseled spendthrifts, budget priorities ...

The hidden costs of holiday consumerism : It's Been a Minute - NPR

A lot of consumers are worried about supply chain delays this holiday season — but there are also other issues to watch out for when ...

Don't let consumerism consume your holiday - Earth Day

With Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday upon us, the holiday shopping frenzy has officially started. But all this consumption fuels ...

Why I'm curbing my Christmas consumerism — even though ...

You might reasonably ask: What does this have to do with Christmas, or rather the annual holidays ... American consumption is a problem. The ...

How Consumerism is Destroying Christmas | America Magazine

As it does every year, it all began at Thanksgiving. The sheer weight of the advertising pages that arrived with the local newspapers was the first ...

The weigh-in: Is consumerism ruining the true spirit of ... - Tatler Asia

“Of course consumerism is ruining the true spirit of the holiday season. The holidays were originally a time for gathering, community and ...

Holidays Are Ruined by Modern Consumerism - Her Campus

Sure like your average person, I like gifts, holiday movies and the overconsumption of expensive food, but on the grand scale of things ...

Polar politics: Consumerism during the holidays - Collegiate Times

The crimes of the weekend were not the most horrifying part of this orgy of consumerism, but rather the images of shoppers camping out in front of malls and ...

Consumerism and you: The best part of Christmas

But consumerism is killing the planet all year long so who really cares if it's a little worse during the holidays? Isn't it worth it to be a ...

Perceptions of Winter Holiday Consumerism, Gift Giving and Waste

The way many Americans consume during times of celebration, especially around the winter holidays, harms the planet. For example, the amount of household waste ...

How do holidays contribute to consumerism? - Dukes Dispatch

The holidays have been commercialized to an extreme extent, causing shoppers to impulsively spend on unnecessary products, ...

5 Ways to Disrupt Holiday Consumerism | by Leyla Acaroglu - Medium

For people who are concerned about the impacts of consumption, this time of year is extremely painful for both us and our families and ...

Readers respond about holiday consumerism - Seattle PI

Is consumerism creepy or creeping? The latter, I insist. It's the holiday arms race, creating resentment, greed, guilt and bankruptcy. If I ...