Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[Kalsarikännit]

caused by middle-class and up people trying to flee other western nations for cheaper ones to live in will cause plenty of issues themselves, and I do believe are a bulk of it.

Problems like... paying taxes, not committing crime, and being productive members of society? I suppose it would be a problem for the places they're leaving.

 

[Toolbox]

Problems like... paying taxes, not committing crime, and being productive members of society? I suppose it would be a problem for the places they're leaving.

No, they're fleeing to have those positives, but those positives will not stay if things keep going as they are. Those coming in do not have the same culture, will drive up prices for naturalized Japanese, and the nature that was finally recovering somewhat is about to get fucked.

 

[DavidS877]

Speaking of Japan and tourists, they just recently banned foreign tourists from a historical district because they couldn't stop treating it like Disneyland and harassing geisha for photos.

When I was in Japan I hiked around a Shinto shrine. I was supremely paranoid the whole time, even though there were plenty of regular Japanese folks also touring. I made sure to read all the signs and be careful with any photos I took. There were also a fair number of people in more traditional garb obviously there for religious reasons.

I also remember walking by a WW2 war museum and briefly considering going inside and looking around. Then I realized that may not have been a very sensitive thing to do.

To be fair it's really not that hard to not be an asshole, but I guess that's a bit much for some peole. And I guess we have the same issues in the US when the feral Chinks come to visit.

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

I had heard about the trend of little kids playing in the testers of high-end beauty products but I hadn't seen it before.

But I was at a Target the other day and it was pretty wild to see. There were about 6 kids, no parents in sight, just dumping tester products into their hands and playing it in like they were making potions. There was foundation smeared all over the displays. Eventually someone's mom showed up and her daughters were begging to buy some sort of product.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/articl...ming-business-of-beauty-products-for-children
I think what I saw was still a freak event, but it really does seem a trend for young children to want to spend their money on fancy skincare- even anti-aging skincare.

I honestly don't think it's inherently bad if children/tweens take an interest in hygiene and skincare products rather than, say, tanning beds and drag makeup. It probably is good for tweens who are in the sun all day playing sports or whatever to wear a face lotion with SPF. The majority of sun damage, which can lead to skin cancer, comes from our childhood years. Acne can also cause lifelong scaring and self-image issues in tweens, so I don't see anything wrong with anti-acne products aimed towards them.

But fancy serums... retinol creams....? Just a waste of money, with a small chance of skin damage if some 10 year old overdoes it with something strong.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

but having so many influencers say how great the place is doesn't help

It's great for foreigners for a certain amount of time. But having to follow the often complicated & nonsensical japanese rules & customs while always beeing seen as the un-japanese foreigner and getting treated accordingly as long as you live there is something most if not all influencer subhumans don't realize. They think Japan is an exotic utopia. Every influencer pest & Japan fetishist moving to Japan to live there for the rest of their life is dumb as shit and delusional.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Problems like... paying taxes, not committing crime, and being productive members of society? I suppose it would be a problem for the places they're leaving.

No, they want to live in these ideal areas without helping build them or maintain them (Granted, it's nigh impossible in parts of the US) . There's a few types:
1) You left-leaning retard who votes for higher taxes for retarded shit, prices themselves out, but can't handle the fact that there's niggers and rapefugees so leaves silently to a cheaper (usally more conservative) place and restarts the cycle while earning the ire of everyone around them.
2) The "I pulled myself up from my bootstraps" types hate anyone younger than them, that got outvoted, leave to a cheaper state. Votes to lower taxes regardless of state of infrastructure, then blames the damn federal government and communists.
3) Laptop class remote worker who should listen to a low tier god speech and "I just want to grill" types who don't interact with anyone.
4) Folks who like the "view" of the less populated place, but complain about not having big city "amenities" (like fast food) and want to turn into subruban hell.

chinese land speculation

It's a type of "Money laundering" (legal in the US) since there are restrictions on how much money you can move out of China in a year. Buy property is a way to do it and then you fuck off and claim asylum as someone decently wealthy (and probably got that money through graft).

 

[Yaks]

I even feel like garage sales and thrift stores are dead. Sometimes I see something half decent pop up on Facebook, but it feels like it's not really worth it.

I have good luck with church missions. Anything with "thrift" or "re-sale" in the title is going to be shit. Avoid the chain stores.

Spoiler: bragging about my thrift stores

One of my local missions is 100% free, another charges $2 per filled bag (or by donation, most people just pay the 2), another has obscenely low prices on everything from high quality furniture to electronics and craft supplies. I could go on. There's one that's a bit more expensive, but even they have super sales at least twice a month that cuts the prices down to nothing. I regularly see things in all these missions selling for $1 that I know 100% sell for $40+ on ebay.

I had a good bitch about Salvation Army prices with an old biddy the other day. When I told her that a lot of people come into the Salvation Army now just to buy stuff to sell online for higher prices, and thats part of the reason prices were skyrocketed, she was disappointed. Poor lady just wanted scrap fabric and can't even find that at a bargain now thanks to flippers.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Something even worse, though not quite 'consoomer', just more malicious in general, is cheap Japanese land getting eaten up by retards from the west, which can probably at least partially be blamed on big names like Pewdiepie moving over there, though not entirely. The Japanese countryside was mostly fled from by people leaving for the cities, thus those areas are nearly abandoned and very cheap now. Not for long, and I'll bet this leads to a decimation of their remaining nature if their govt does nothing, which I fear it will seeing their population catastrophe.

Isn't there some law in Japan that lets the family who formerly owned the land force a sale if they feel like reclaiming it? I think it has something to do with how they broke apart the feudal domains 150 years ago.

And the Japanese countryside is probably more at risk from rapefugees and gimmegrants the government dumps there than they are influencers and weebs and commies teaching English, since at least a few Japanese politicians want that (they haven't gone that far yet). Kind of like how they will dump a dozen Somalis or Afghans in a quaint Irish village of 100 people.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

I had a good bitch about Salvation Army prices with an old biddy the other day. When I told her that a lot of people come into the Salvation Army now just to buy stuff to sell online for higher prices, and thats part of the reason prices were skyrocketed, she was disappointed. Poor lady just wanted scrap fabric and can't even find that at a bargain now thanks to flippers.

The really crazy thing is that the stores themselves are sometimes the worst flippers, maintaining lists of things that are to be kept off the sales floor so that they can be posted online. Goodwill even maintains its own auction site and will have managers and employees comb through all of a day's donations and compare anything that looks like it might be more than junk to similar items on ebay. The people with barcode scanners buying dozens of books are just the modern version of medieval gleaners.

 

[NoReturn]

Isn't there some law in Japan that lets the family who formerly owned the land force a sale if they feel like reclaiming it? I think it has something to do with how they broke apart the feudal domains 150 years ago.

And the Japanese countryside is probably more at risk from rapefugees and gimmegrants the government dumps there than they are influencers and weebs and commies teaching English, since at least a few Japanese politicians want that (they haven't gone that far yet). Kind of like how they will dump a dozen Somalis or Afghans in a quaint Irish village of 100 people.

Bad shit happens to citizens in the countryside, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi0OhLQjQuo

 

[SomeSpook]

I'm somewhat of a history sperg, and maybe I would probably consider myself a "consoomer." I mostly purchase World War II paraphenilia. Like replica firearms, helmets, medals, ordinace, you name it. Although, some of this stuff is expensive and I usually reserve my purchases to twice a year. My birthday or Christmas is when I usually try to go around the internet and find these types of things. I want to at least be frugal in my, I don't know, "collecting."

 

[bliblblblbbllb]

I'm somewhat of a history sperg, and maybe I would probably consider myself a "consoomer." I mostly purchase World War II paraphenilia. Like replica firearms, helmets, medals, ordinace, you name it. Although, some of this stuff is expensive and I usually reserve my purchases to twice a year. My birthday or Christmas is when I usually try to go around the internet and find these types of things. I want to at least be frugal in my, I don't know, "collecting."

Being a collector is a very natural and timeless human hobby and there's no innate problem with it. Anyone who thinks it's inherently bad to collect things because you value them for some non-utilitarian reason is a bughive-loving commie.

If you spent hundreds of dollars buying the shittiest plastic Made In China memorbilla at every gift shop in WWII mueseums, forced your kids to share a bedroom because you need half the house to store your boxes and boxes of shit, or bought things you don't ever give a damn about just to say you own one because you have an intense fear of missing out- that's consooming.

Buying a couple items a few times a year on special occasions because you're a nerd and enjoy it is as normal as it gets. Unless you're such a minimalist you think it's bad to have more than one set of silverware in your kitchen or a clock on the wall or a flower vase on the table.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I mostly purchase World War II paraphenilia. Like replica firearms, helmets, medals, ordinace, you name it.

Side question, but why replicas? I am no rich man but I own one of all the common (non automatic) American infantry weapons of ww2.

But back to the point, there is a counter-Consoom overreaction I am seeing more from 'minimalists', which are almost cowish in of themselves. Read some of their material and they seem to think if you own anything that your life doesnt depend on, you're a consoomer faggot. I've been told that many young people don't really have hobbies anymore and can't relate to objects except in a mindless consoomer blind buying manner, so this might be part of it.

 

[John Titor]

Side question, but why replicas? I am no rich man but I own one of all the common (non automatic) American infantry weapons of ww2.

But back to the point, there is a counter-Consoom overreaction I am seeing more from 'minimalists', which are almost cowish in of themselves. Read some of their material and they seem to think if you own anything that your life doesnt depend on, you're a consoomer faggot. I've been told that many young people don't really have hobbies anymore and can't relate to objects except in a mindless consoomer blind buying manner, so this might be part of it.

Can you elaborate with examples? I remember seeing a twitter post with a shitty made bingo which according to him, doing any kind of leisure is considered consooming.

 

[SomeSpook]

Side question, but why replicas? I am no rich man but I own one of all the common (non automatic) American infantry weapons of ww2.

But back to the point, there is a counter-Consoom overreaction I am seeing more from 'minimalists', which are almost cowish in of themselves. Read some of their material and they seem to think if you own anything that your life doesnt depend on, you're a consoomer faggot. I've been told that many young people don't really have hobbies anymore and can't relate to objects except in a mindless consoomer blind buying manner, so this might be part of it.

>Side question but why replicas. I am no rich man but I own one of all the common non (automatic) American infantry weapons of World War II
I mostly purchase replicas or reproductions because they are easier to find and somewhat affordable. The actual World War II era stuff seems challenging to find, and when I do it's at an insanely steep price. Although some of the things I have are geniuine.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

Side question, but why replicas? I am no rich man but I own one of all the common (non automatic) American infantry weapons of ww2.

But back to the point, there is a counter-Consoom overreaction I am seeing more from 'minimalists', which are almost cowish in of themselves. Read some of their material and they seem to think if you own anything that your life doesnt depend on, you're a consoomer faggot. I've been told that many young people don't really have hobbies anymore and can't relate to objects except in a mindless consoomer blind buying manner, so this might be part of it.

r/minimalism is an interesting community. There's a mix of ex-hoarders, reverse consoomers, poor people who are trying to put a positive spin on their situation, and weirdos who live out of a bugout bag, like this Redditor who's so minimalist that she's about to pull a Mama JF because she can't bring herself to replace her cell phone or this one who slept on the floor for three years even though she is dating a man who does sleep like a normal person, who she is now planning to cajole into joining her in her dog-like way of life.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

r/minimalism is an interesting community. There's a mix of ex-hoarders, reverse consoomers, poor people who are trying to put a positive spin on their situation, and weirdos who live out of a bugout bag, like this Redditor who's so minimalist that she's about to pull a Mama JF because she can't bring herself to replace her cell phone or this one who slept on the floor for three years even though she is dating a man who does sleep like a normal person, who she is now planning to cajole into joining her in her dog-like way of life.

We did it reddit!

 

[skibidi biden]

r/minimalism is an interesting community. There's a mix of ex-hoarders, reverse consoomers, poor people who are trying to put a positive spin on their situation, and weirdos who live out of a bugout bag, like this Redditor who's so minimalist that she's about to pull a Mama JF because she can't bring herself to replace her cell phone or this one who slept on the floor for three years even though she is dating a man who does sleep like a normal person, who she is now planning to cajole into joining her in her dog-like way of life.

buddhism touched on this in the idea of attachment and aversion being equally damaging

trying too hard to not own anything is as bad as overconsuming

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

buddhism touched on this in the idea of attachment and aversion being equally damaging

trying too hard to not own anything is as bad as overconsuming

Yes! Desire comes in many forms, including a desire for annihilation, the pursuit of which, ironically, ensures that one's soul remains trapped in the cycle of rebirth. When it comes to consooomerism and minimalism, trying to get as close as you can to living in a featureless void is retarded and guaranteed to lead to as much empty-feeling and dissatisfaction (dukkha) as any $50k FunkoPop collection.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

this one who slept on the floor for three years even though she is dating a man who does sleep like a normal person, who she is now planning to cajole into joining her in her dog-like way of life

I actually get sleeping on the floor for back pains, or in the summer when bed is bitch hot