Overconsumption in America

America has been a nation of consumers for a long time now and sometimes this consumption goes to overdrive just because we can afford it or put it on plastic. But due to this overconsumption, we have become a nation of debtors to the world. We buy on impulse and the sales that look great tempt people to buy stuff that they do not want or need. Even sometimes when some of us are sad, in order to cheer ourselves or just want to forget some painful moment in our lives, we go out and buy stuff and then don’t even us it.

Consumption can be good in the sense that it employs people and our economy grows but excess of everything is bad and that what happens with consumption too. Then there are these wholesale clubs where in order to save some money we buy stuff that are in bulk but sometimes ends in wastage because of expiry dates or not needing it anymore. Then I hear that women and men buy shoes and clothes for every occasion that they never wear and it is also a waste of money. All this not only results in waste but it shows that we over consume resulting in our huge debt in terms of credit card bills and our national debt. This debt never goes down due to our consumption and the interest that it accumulates every second. We need to stop this over consumption unless it consumes and take over our lives (which it does for some in more than one way).