Spring Break: Making America’s Party Time a Postconsumer Time
It’s that time of year again. In just a few short weeks, college students, high school students and even a great number of high school students’ parents will embark on a tradition known as spring break. Whether spring break in your world is a wild trip to Daytona Beach with your college buddies or a family trip to a calmer, more child-appropriate location, this break can bring with it a lot of [...]
A Very Postconsumer Mardi Gras
When we say “Mardi Gras,” you most likely think of inebriated, poorly behaved people wandering through New Orleans’ French Quarter and wearing plastic beads and feathered masks. While it’s true that this is what Mardi Gras has often become associated with, we think that there are some postconsumer elements that can be easily mixed into the concepts of Mardi Gras to make this a very postconsumer carnival season for all! A Little [...]
Your Brain’s Hungry Hounds of More, More, More
Here's a quick, middle-of-the-night shoutout to jenniferlouden.com. What a marvelous quote to begin the new day ahead! "Everybody is born with a hungry pack of Hounds of more, more, more. They have a permanent home in your brain. Yes, if you get an MRI, you will actually see a ratty little doghouse with a whole bunch of gnawed bones around it. But you wouldn't see the Hounds. They move too fast, they are [...]
Will This Year’s Oscar Nominees Exemplify Postconsumerism?
The eighty-third annual Academy Awards are coming up on February 27th. In numerous ways, the event (though a guilty pleasure for many) exemplifies some attitudes of waste and opulence for a one-night event that we’d like to see downplayed. Grand and often wasteful parties, expensive gowns and jewelry worn for only one night, and let’s not even get into much of the wastefulness in the movie industry as a whole. However, increasingly, [...]
More New Postconsumer Definitions! Where Do Massive Shopping Bags Fit In?
Lots more superb postconsumer definitions have come in during the last couple weeks! Yes, massive shopping bags have a role below, like the way they disappear when freedom comes. Here are brief examples of answers to the question, "What does being a postconsumer mean to you?" from new subscribers to our Get Satisfied Interactive Handbook. To see more examples, enjoy the rotation on our homepage every time you visit or refresh the page. [...]
A Postconsumer Valentine’s Limerick
Far be it from us to not take advantage of a day that’s all about love and marketing to try to ensure that we shift the focus away from the “marketing” portion and into the “love” portion. To that end, we’ve written a little poem for all of the postconsumers out there, and we hope that you enjoy it! Roses are red, violets are blue, I love you because you’re a postconsumer [...]
Four Shocking Facts About US Credit Card Use
Reducing or properly managing credit card debt is, as you know, one of the most important steps in becoming a successful postconsumer. However, for many of us, we don’t understand just how out-of-control credit card use can get. To that end, here are four shocking facts about credit card use in the United States, compliments of the Lancaster Gazette, that can help put just how big the problem is (or can become [...]
Your Primer on the Online Advertising Tracking Opt-Out
One of our primary goals as postconsumers, and as people helping to educate others on how to separate themselves from the consumer-driven media machine, is to be aware of the tools that are available to us to help give control over the barrage of consumer marketers. Recently, both the Google Chrome browser and the Mozilla Firefox browser made tools available to users that would allow them to opt-out of having their behavior [...]
Three Tips for Teaching Kids Postconsumerism
The real future of the postconsumer movement, of course, lies in raising children who are more aware of the consumer media, the wastefulness of mass consumerism and the need to be financially responsible. But how do you raise children to have those qualities when they’re faced with conflicting messages about “stuff” and consumerism every single day? We will not lie to you, it will be a challenge. However, it is possible! Here [...]
Tips for Converting Others to Sustainable Living
One of the common frustrations we hear from passionate postconsumers is the inability that they experience to convert others to the idea of sustainable living or even green living. The truth is, getting people to change their behaviors can be a significant challenge. Recently, Les Robinson broke down the science of human behavior that can work for, and against, the goal of teaching people to break wasteful consumer habits (or, for that matter, [...]
