Scott Matter<p>This is pretty good, but I’ll suggest a slight reframe:</p><p>“If you are buying something because you’re feeling sad or angry or stressed, it might be a way to avoid the emotion. Instead, Cheers suggests taking a second to listen to your body, so you can figure out what you really need.</p><p>“The answer might be ‘I’m feeling really stressed, I need to go for a walk or a run’. Or ‘I’m feeling really low, I need to talk to a friend’. Or ‘I’m feeling really angry, I need to talk to this person because they’ve upset me’.</p><p>“Your answer is probably not, or might not be, I need to buy this thing.”</p><p>The “I need to…” examples here aren’t really “needs” - they’re different actions that could satisfy a deeper, more fundamental set of needs. </p><p>So rather than saying “I need to go for a walk or run”, maybe frame it as “Going for a walk or run instead of making this online purchase will be better for me - helping me feel less stressed now and also contributing to longer-term physical well being; for soceity - helping undermine the dominant culture of consumerism; and for the planet - helping reduce the ecological impact of over-producing material goods and of wasteful over-packaging associated with online shopping and shipping”</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/consumerism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consumerism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/humanNeeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanNeeds</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Wellbeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wellbeing</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/shopping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shopping</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ecologicalEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecologicalEconomics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/26/curbing-sales-season-shopping-urges-figure-out-what-you-actually-need-and-do-that-instead" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2</span><span class="invisible">023/dec/26/curbing-sales-season-shopping-urges-figure-out-what-you-actually-need-and-do-that-instead</span></a></p>