The Best Postconsumers Memes of 2015
You might actually be surprised by how much time and energy we put into memes and visuals at Postconsumers. Partially because it’s fun, but also because we don’t want to fall into the trap of just filling the internet with more litter. We’re sure there are times when we do the latter (Halloween cat meme anybody?), but we are actually quite proud of some of the visual directions that we’ve taken this year. [...]
The Best Postconsumers Lists of 2015
Long before BuzzFeed took over the internet, the writers at Postconsumers were in love with writing in list format. In fact, we’ve been keeping track of our favorite lists of the year for a while now. You can find our favorite lists of 2014 here and our favorite lists of 2013 here. So what made the cut this year? Here’s our 2015 list of lists. Five Places You May Not Realize You Have [...]
The Best Postconsumers Articles of 2015
By now you probably know that it’s a bit of a tradition around here to pat ourselves on the back at the end of the year and tell you how good our marketing team and our content was! Just joking, sort of! We do like to compile a list at the end of the year with the best content (in our opinion) that we posted throughout the year. It’s a chance for us [...]
Our Favorite Five Upcycled Holiday Gift Ideas
Holiday gift giving. While many postconsumers eschew it, we actually think that there’s plenty of room for the tradition of gift giving even within the postconsumer community. Gift giving is a sweet way to acknowledge the place of others in your life and to celebrate the spirit of the season. Of course, you need to be smart about your gift giving and try to separate it out from the consumer machine as much [...]
Is Money a Pro- or Anti-Consumer Gift?
This holiday season, we’ve focused our Postconsumers content on helping you navigate the often tricky waters of holiday gift exchanges if you know – or are – a postconsumer. After all, having decided that your goal is to take control of your life, your happiness and your finances back from the consumer media machine doesn’t mean that you decided to give up the Winter holidays. So far, we’ve helped you to set limits [...]
Stocking Stuffers for the Postconsumer: What To Give the Person Who Doesn’t Want “Stuff”
Just because there’s a postconsumer in your life, it doesn’t mean that he or she wouldn’t like to get a little something as a token of appreciation during the holidays. Postconsumers, after all, doesn’t mean that people have disavowed everything and are living off of nature only in a tree house in the woods (though many days that sounds absolutely delightful). It just means that you’re making responsible decisions about “stuff” with an [...]
Setting Limits on Gift Giving: Enjoy the Tradition Without Letting It Be Dictated by the Consumer Machine
The holidays are upon us, and that means that it’s gift-giving season. While the tradition of gift-giving at the holidays can stir up some controversy among postconsumers, we maintain that there’s nothing wrong with getting into the spirit of the holiday and showing the people who mean the most to you a little appreciation with a gift. We just think that you’ll want to be responsible about knowing how much of your gift [...]
Twenty Tips for Making the Holidays About People Not Things
While December is truly the heart of the holiday season, November is the month when people often feel the most overwhelmed with holiday fever and, more specifically, the need to stock up on “stuff.” From presents to decorations, “stuff” can easily take over the holiday spirit as early as the first of November (and we all know that in some cases holiday marketing begins during Halloween). We know that with the huge focus [...]
Our Favorite Quotes About Being Thankful
Last year around this time, we realized that every November we present a significant amount of content about “beating Black Friday consumerism” and that it can sound, well, a little bit negative. In fact, we adore the holidays and Thanksgiving in particular. Starting last year, we decided to try to make a point of that by making our list of things that we’re thankful for at Postconsumers an annual tradition. But it also [...]
What We’re Thankful For This Year: The 2015 Edition
We try very hard to practice thankfulness at Postconsumers every single day. But it’s become somewhat of a tradition to post a list each November of things and people that (or whom) we’re especially thankful for this year. Postconsumers has been chugging away for years now slowly but steadily educating the public about addictive consumerism, the industrial marketing machine, and how to fall in love with enough. Along the way there are plenty [...]
