consumerism

Anne Kingston: Although the tidying diva’s new product line passed her own ‘spark check,’ existential questions remain

The self storage industry in Canada is booming and going to extreme lengths to stash your excess stuff

Jesse Brown on why we are getting the Wii Mini before anyone else

Brits are using credit like never before. Whatever happened to frugality?

A weekly scorecard on the state of the economy in North America and beyond

The young men, called herbivores, don’t want sex

Rob Walker writes the fun Consumed column in the NYTImes magazine.  He also has a new book out called Buying In: The Secret dialogue between what we buy and who we are which is getting some good press. I haven’t found the time to read it yet, and the Gawker post on the book has Walker drawing “the sad—but unavoidable—conclusion that we are all a bunch of sheep blindly obeying a world of marketing messages.”