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We had some nice Mother/Daughter time yesterday when I took my five year old daughter shopping.

Of course this meant that we came home with Dora soup and Hannah Montanna granola bars.

Don’t they sound appetizing.

Truth is, you stick a recognizable character on a box or can and any child that is shopping with mom or dad is now hemming and hawing to get that item.

Mom or dad does not want a scene in the store. Decides this is not a battle worth picking at the time.

So you buy it, go home and add a nice decorative piece to your cabinet, who knows if they’ll actually eat it.

Gotta love marketing.

Though it’s not just talking about soups and granola bars, here’s an interesting bit from Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger:

“Perhaps the most demonic part of advertising is that it attempts  to persuade us that material possessions will bring joy and fulfillment. “That happiness is to be attained by limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to man, but it is preached incessantly by every American television set.”

How true and how sad.

I’d like to try and break my addiction to more stuff and simplify my life. I’ve made some progress, though some-days not so much.

Hopefully I can teach my children as I go.

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