Shop until you drop (further into debt).                                                                            shanna trenholm That joyful season is upon us again; the one that seems to come around every year about this time. The season, where rampant consumerism disguised as a time to show others how we feel about them through a transactional exchange of material goods, otherwise known as Christmas. Now I'm not going to get all preachy about the real reason for the season, because if I did I’d tell you about the early Roman and Pagan origins ...

In 2010 I was invited to join the fab team at the Unconsumption blog. The blog was started by Rob Walker, a NY Times magazine columnist, and the author of, among others, Buying In: The secret dialogue between what we buy and who we are. Unconsumption, as described by Walker is "...not about the rejection of things, or the demonization of things. It’s not a bunch of rules. Unconsumption is an idea, a set of behaviors, a way of thinking about consumption itself from ...