Shop for Your Life
I read a story in Metro today about a woman who hasn’t been shopping for a year.
The result of it is a book but it’s not entirely clear if she stopped shopping for research or if the book was a bi product of not shopping. I’m leaning towards the latter.
Either way I can’t help but to think “WTF!?”. Seriously. Is this an actual problem? Is this really news? Is this really worth wasting paper and time on?
I’ve heard about people who can’t help themselves from buying stuff but I don’t buy that, no pun intended. If you can’t afford it, don’t buy it. A problem is when you don’t have food on your dinner table or the only water you have is too dirty to drink. It’s not a problem if you spend 200 SEK on a new sweater.
The article really reaches it’s climax when the reporter asks “What was most difficult?” and the response is “To walk by the shops after payday.”. What can I say. I feel really sorry for her, I don’t know how I can sleep at night knowing this.
My point? Find yourself a real problem and write a book about it, don’t waste time on pseudo issues that doesn’t really matter in the need anyway.
