It's what the company I work for does best. Not just them but every online company in the US.
I can order everything online and have it delivered to my home with the only human inconvenience being dealing with my delivery guy (I joke):
- Instant groceries via Prime Now and Instacart, if I'm unwilling to wait a day for Amazon Fresh, Safeway and QFC;
- Christmas trees and people to pick up those Christmas trees when done;
- Petrol/Gas for your car;
- A massage at home;
- Organic tampons;
- Furniture. Yes, every single piece of furniture you can imagine; and
- Anything else you can imagine.
We live in the future and I want my flying car!
You think I joke, but I have pre-ordered two Star Trek: TOS Bluetooth® Communicators. One for my sister and one for myself.
We live in a time when you can get anything you want. My smartphone is more powerful than the computer that landed man on the moon. My speakers hear my commands and turn my house lights on and off , read me the news and tell me the weather or time if I'm too lazy to lift up my so smartphone.
It is so easy to buy. It takes a level of mindfulness to wake up after a goodnight's sleep and cancel that order of plastic garden flamingos. Yes, that happened last week.
People joke that we once had arguments about facts and now google (with a small 'g') everything and Snopes it on the spot. I extend on that and say that we have a conversation and can act on every whim and buy any damn thing we want.
But do we need those things?
This week, I have decided to not by anything that I do not NEED. When I say need, it must be essential to my survival or maintaining my basic standard of living.
In the spirit of a good Amazonian, I decided to keep a Wish List of A Week of Wants and refuse to buy anything that didn't go under the banner of essential.
I'm not saying I will buy them in a week but I am keeping a list of everything I would have purchased given the chance.
This will be both informative and confronting.
Would you face your inner consumer and not be disgusted?
We live in a time when you can get anything you want. My smartphone is more powerful than the computer that landed man on the moon. My speakers hear my commands and turn my house lights on and off , read me the news and tell me the weather or time if I'm too lazy to lift up my so smartphone.
It is so easy to buy. It takes a level of mindfulness to wake up after a goodnight's sleep and cancel that order of plastic garden flamingos. Yes, that happened last week.
People joke that we once had arguments about facts and now google (with a small 'g') everything and Snopes it on the spot. I extend on that and say that we have a conversation and can act on every whim and buy any damn thing we want.
But do we need those things?
This week, I have decided to not by anything that I do not NEED. When I say need, it must be essential to my survival or maintaining my basic standard of living.
In the spirit of a good Amazonian, I decided to keep a Wish List of A Week of Wants and refuse to buy anything that didn't go under the banner of essential.
I'm not saying I will buy them in a week but I am keeping a list of everything I would have purchased given the chance.
This will be both informative and confronting.
Would you face your inner consumer and not be disgusted?
Too late - just bought a iphone 6 battery case from mophie with qi charging capability. Might try again next week
ReplyDeleteNext week for you then, Sanson.
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