Spending boom fuelled by the desire for happiness

People's spending habits today are influenced more by the ebb and flow of personal relationships than the desire for material goods, according to research.

While spending patterns in the 1960s were characterised by fulfilling basic needs and in the 1980s by materialism, the trend now is towards personal fulfilment and emotional happiness.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtm...l?xml=/news/2005/08/01/nspend01.xml

Buying lots of metal albums, watching lotsa movies, talking about all the cool 'n' hip books, DVDs, CDs and art objects you have. Yep. Nailed. You're typical, no matter how "underground" or "emo sensitive" (LOL) you are.

do you ever post anything worthwhile that's not some sort of propaganda?

Thank you for considering my "sort of propaganda" worthwhile (diagram your sentence if this doesn't make sense).

you're stupid and you can't get it through your mind that nobody want to read this shit.

people couldn't afford to by things for themselves in the 60s, they can now. and what about the 1920 asshole? the trend is when people have money they'll spend it. and there's no reason why they shouldn't.

my boss once said "isnt it funny how no matter how much a person makes, they always spend it all"
GUILTY!

ALL OF YOU SHUT UP AND GO TO TARGET!!! IT'S TAX FREE DAY!!!

like the ads say, it's always tax free day in NH.
life free or die!

people buy and do what the fuck they want. albums, drugs, lawnmowers, cigarettes, superchargers and vibrators. so what. people spend themselves into insurmountable debt while they're at it. credit cards helped all the right people and fucked over everyone else. the nothing is unobtainable attitude is so dangerously infectious and it's such an easy sell, especially in developed countries. that's a huge part of the issue.

I didn't have a credit card until nov 2004.
I got it so I could order things over a $1000 online.

i got a nice ibanez check today and wanted to go buy a sofa for our place but the rev keeps saying the one we have is good enough for noe

sigh

it's sooo old and ugly and torn