Consumer culture.

Hello - today I bought a pair of Doc Martens. Why? My blundestones are good but sometimes you need a pair of boots that you can lace up tightly and really go y'know?

But aside from that utility function (which is real they are shoes after all and I'm going to wear them damnit) there is also the fashion statement and the consumer culture. So I also like that they make me want to start a union. It also makes me want to fruitlessly contact the Queen (https://www.royal.uk/contact-us) once again begging her to end the monarchy as it is a drain on tax payer money and the British people have chosen democracy.

With this all in mind does anyone know how to fight consumer culture and become a bit more thrifty? I like the ideals of my grandparents which is literally have everything until it has broken so many times that even the repair man thinks he or she likes the business but feels bad fixing whatever is broken.

Any advice?

Thank you.

 

Gets you up and gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?
Gimme Honda, Gimme Sony
So cheap and real phony


She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice
Better work hard - I seen the price
Never mind that it's time for the bus
We got to work - an' you're one of us
Clocks go slow in a place of work
Minutes drag and the hours jerk

(Poetry stolen from The Clash - the Magnificent Seven)