Only you can do it.

My blog contains concerns about issues in our every day life.

It is only with age that I have begun to appreciate just what a huge role society plays in our choices.  From clothing, to food, to toothpaste -- even to the medications we think so important in our lives.

What do I mean?  Well, remember Vioxx?  What a miracle drug that was.  Only, wait, oh, sorry it caused heart attacks and death for some.  Did you know that every major corporation has an agolrythim number that is a cut off before they do a recall?  That they will pay off small claims first?  Did you know that MERCK KNEW about the heart attack issue and continued to  keep it on the market?  Do you know that Dr.'s continued to prescribe it?

Society.  Must haves.  Clothes, houses, cars, tv, phones, computers etc, etc, etc.

We let social media tell us what we want and need.

I bought a Sony tv in 1971.  I replaced that tv in 1999.  Yes!  It had a wonderful picture till it died.  TV's today at absolute most are expected to last a maximum of 7 years.  Wow!  That sure is progress.  Computers are outmoded the moment you buy.  If you want to stay on top you have to buy new ones every year.

Any more I ask myself:  is this a need or a want.  If it's a want, then, it's a luxury.  Plain and simple.  It's a thing.

Yet, as a young woman, a young wife ... I filled myself with all these concepts of "what my life should look like" ... nice china, silverware, a decorated home.  I think we all want that ... but, we don't need half of what all the ads make us hunger for.

I hate shopping any more.  Why?  B/c the big companies rake in money, don't pay a fair tax rate, but by God, they make their profit.  They bilk us of our money day in and day out with claims that aren't true, but, convince us we have to have them.  Example:  pasta.  Ever eat mac n cheese ... the cheapest kind by Kraft?  Look at those noodles:  they're a third the size they used to be ... but ... they charge more.  Potato Chips?  Lays Potato Chips ... looks like a large bag ... 5 inches are air, 3 inches of chips, and 2 inches of shattered chips.  But the price has risen.  Bushes bean.  Two years ago a can contain and inch of sauce and the rest were beans.  I bought a can a couple of weeks ago:  2.5 inches of sauce with less than half a can of beans.

We need to rebel.  We need to stop buying their products until they stop ripping us off.  Prepacked foods they say aren't good for you anyway ...

We don't need half of what we buy.  Only we can make a difference ... but we cannot do it alone.