Consumer purchasing is an expression and a reflection of you, your tastes, and your lifestyle choices. Your spending decisions reflect your priorities. Maybe you take pride in your car or your clothes or your kitchen appliances or your latest, coolest purchase. Or maybe you spend whatever you can on travel or on your passion for hiking. Those very personal tastes will frame your spending choices.
Over the last 50 years, the average American home size has grown from 1,000 square feet to 2,500 square feet, and we consume twice as many material goods today as we did 50 years ago. Excess material possessions do not enrich our lives. In fact, buying things we don’t need keeps us from experiencing life-giving and life-freeing benefits. We would be wise to realize the cause and become vigilant in overcoming it. Whether it’s a new car or the latest smartwatch, the reality is that the value of consumer goods generally drops over time.
Objectives of this worksheet:
To diagnose my purchasing habits and restructure my decision-making process before buying something
To learn how to adjust my consumer purchasing lifestyle
How can I live simpler?
To create an action plan for a more sustainable consumer purchasing mindset