What did you do yesterday?
Now known internationally as ‘Black Friday’.
Were you out at the shops searching for bargains?
Surfing the web?
Suck(er)ed into buying something you didn’t want or need by a carefully-targeted and tempting enticement from a previously-visited or a favourite website?
Are you experiencing ‘buyer’s remorse’ about any of your purchases?
Whilst the timing of this message is targeted towards those of us who celebrate, mark or ‘suffer’ Christmas as we know it today, it is part of the much wider movement that asks us to each reflect on our consumerism overall and its effect on not only the environment, but also on our own personal finances and happiness – and how what we do affects other people, too.
Whatever you did or didn’t do yesterday, we all have the choice today to do something different(ly) in the run up to Christmas this year, and from hereon in… Continue reading “Black Friday Blues?”
A couple, Cherie Harris and James Mainwaring, approached their wedding arrangements in a rather different and heartening way.
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