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Twenty Ways to Support Local Vendors Instead of Big Global Brands – Part One

  Choose Where You Shop We’ve tackled some big topics so far this year at Postconsumers – from a hundred things to do instead of watch television to ways to de-clutter your entire life. This month is no exception. One of the pieces of advice that you frequently hear us give at Postconsumers is to shop locally and avoid big brand monopolies. What you haven’t seen us do is offer some advice for [...]

By |September 3rd, 2014|Categories: Becoming a Postconsumer, Consumerism, Shop Local|Tags: |

100 Things to Do Instead of Watch TV – Part Eight (The Leftovers)

  This month at Postconsumers, we’re really helping you to distance yourself from the consumer machine by giving you a hundred things that you can do instead of watch television. So far, we’ve devoted articles to topics like improving your brain, getting healthier, enjoying food and even fighting the consumer machine. But not every idea for how to get out from in front of the television falls neatly into a category. For our [...]

By |August 27th, 2014|Categories: Becoming a Postconsumer, Consumerism, Media Diet|Tags: , |

Kill Your TV: T.S. Eliot Quote

"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time and yet remain lonesome." T.S. Eliot Get more quotes like this by following us on the social networks below. Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ Photo Credit: Orban López Cruz via Flickr  

By |August 26th, 2014|Categories: Media Diet, Memes, Quotes|Tags: , |

100 Things to Do Instead of Watch TV – Part Seven (Fight the Power!)

  This month at Postconsumers, we’re really helping you to distance yourself from the consumer machine by giving you a hundred things that you can do instead of watch television. And since we are, after all, a site fighting back against consumerism (in a mainstream sort of way), we thought that today’s list should focus on activities that you can do that will help to minimize and combat the consumer machine. So much [...]

By |August 25th, 2014|Categories: Becoming a Postconsumer, Consumerism, Media Diet|Tags: , |

100 Things to Do Instead of Watch TV – Part Six (Lovers Love Big Brains)

  This month at Postconsumers, we’re really helping you to distance yourself from the consumer machine by giving you a hundred things that you can do instead of watch television. Aside from the consumer media messaging that you’re exposed to every day via television, our parents would quickly also remind you that “TV turns your brain to mush.” That’s why today’s list of things that you can do to get out from behind [...]

By |August 20th, 2014|Categories: Becoming a Postconsumer, Consumerism, Media Diet|Tags: , |

100 Things to Do Instead of Watch TV – Part Five (Heal the World Redux)

  This month at Postconsumers, we’re really helping you to distance yourself from the consumer machine by giving you a hundred things that you can do instead of watch television. In our previous article, we gave you ways to stay away from the televisions screen while also putting good into the world. Today, we’re talking about another way to heal the world – by literally healing it. Sitting in front of the television [...]

By |August 18th, 2014|Categories: Becoming a Postconsumer, Consumerism, Media Diet|Tags: , |
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