Surprise! We realize it’s been five long years since the last post here and haven’t lost track of time or even lost our marbles. However, we did lose our expert video team five years ago (and Carol Holst doesn’t have a camera). But luckily our expert advertising team continues the Postconsumers goal of constantly spreading these seven crucial words to the U.S. mainstream: “Do I like posts of cute animals?”
No wait, of course people like cute animal posts or they wouldn’t have conquered the web. Actually, our anonymous, open-ended question for the American mainstream is: “Do I have enough stuff for now?”
Because let’s face it, the public in this country usually isn’t interested in any of the approaches to the topic of changing high U.S. consumption. So the whole idea of our seven-word campaign is to throw that topic out the window these days. Maybe people want to add a fleet of cars or maybe they want to become nudists. You get the concept, it doesn’t matter how different the answers are.
Whether people choose to have a lot of consumer goods or a little or in between isn’t the point. The point is that they have the means to be able to choose, and that they consider the question “Do I have enough stuff for now?” You can answer it here.
We love every answer, and here are some anonymous sample quotes from the huge variety of viewpoints about self-defined enoughness:
“No!!!”
“Yes and no, I have enough to survive but I need new tech.”
“Of course I have enough stuff for now. I have a house, a car and money.”
“I have cupboards full of cups! There’s too much stuff!”
“If it’s about enjoying life, I’ll make that purchase.”
“I have a closetful, that’s capitalism, but it’s enough.”
“We have stuff coming out the yinyang, I was a stuffer.”
“I probably don’t have enough, I’m in school, I’m broke.”
“I can always use more makeup, clothes and tech stuff.”
“We don’t shop at the big box stores so much any more.”
“Sigma male – I have what is needed.”
“I believe you can always have more stuff!”
“It’s corny to say but I’m not really a material person.”
“I’m always going to want stuff but I have what I need.”
“It’s a hard question but I’m getting by, can’t complain.”
“No I don’t have enough stuff, I’m poor.”
“The less clutter the better but to each their own.”
“Oh yes I’m on a first name basis with people at Goodwill.”
“I want stuff as long as it’s different than what I have.”
“California wildfire took everything, less really is more.”
“It might sound lame but if I’m ok inside, outside is too.”
“I can never have enough video and photography business stuff.”
