The Pinnacle of Society

In one of my classes we have been discussing consumerism and have deemed it to be the pinnacle of society. Everywhere you turn there is advertisements of some kind to promote consumerism whether its a billboard to free promotional koozies handed out at the ballpark. We promote the need to spend beyond your means and if you do not believe that take a note on how many credit card commercials there are on the television or in your favorite magazine. We also discussed in our class that if people swapped back to the old do not spend what you do not have mindset that this country would be in a lot better situation. I talked to the hubby about everything we discussed in our class and we have decided to pay off our credit cards and cut them up. The only card we will be keeping is our debit card since that comes out of my bank account directly. Maybe some other people should take the initiative that we are because the only thing that can change if your credit rating from doing this which is something we have been working to change lately anyways.