A quotable article from The Funny Times

Sometimes they print articles that aren't that funny, though they have funny bits in them. This one was too well-written to pass up.

"Everything you buy requires time. Time to deal with it, time to read the manual, time to put batteries in it, time to maintain it, time to fix it, time to clean it, time to organize it with all the other crap. Time that could be spent hiking, playing music, doing art projects, hanging out with friends, is spent dealing with junk. Not only do you get in financial debt from the acquisition of junk, you end up with time debt as well.

"I think there's an ingrained, hard-wired need to accumulate stuff in all of us. Take robins, for example. Robins collect shiny things for their nests. They don't need the shiny things, but they sure like them. I think our current culture is amplifying this need and turning it into a dangerous obsession."

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"The meaning of life should not be about Pez dispensers. It should be about our relationships with others and creative endeavors that celebrate our uniqueness. We should be worshipping the Earth and God, not our posessions. Our lives should not be consumed with consuming.

"Easy for me to say. The robin in me, however, still wants more shiny things."

-"Consumerism: The New Religion" by Janet Periat