I usually have pretty good consumer self control. I'm not a big impulse buyer. I look for the bargains, and I love a good sale. I honestly can say that I do not feel that commercials affect my buying choices -- really!
However I was talking to a friend last night and I realized that maybe, just maybe I have been pulled in -- no sucked in-- to buying certain products based solely on the mindless dribble I see on TV, and read in magazines.
I fell for the Wii fenzy, and the iPod revolution. I even bought a Blackberry; which I hate, and wished I hadn't. Every time I buy these things I feel a little dirty. I feel that I have bought into the consumer stereotype - of having no freewill, and are easily munipulated by flashing advertising, and sensory overload! Crap.
I can't really point fingers can I? I have free will, and I do not 'need' to buy the products being pushed on me. And I think for the most part I don't fall for it. But everyonce and a while I just can't help myself.
Baa. Baa. Oh, crap.
