10 Ways In Which We’re More Consumerist Than Our Parents

1. We buy jams and pickles from shops whereas our parents made these at home.

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2. We buy all our clothes from various outlets, while our parents frequently knit and sewed them.

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3.We often go out to eat or order in, which was a rarity for our parents.

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4. We buy new equipment when our old ones malfunction but our parents got their equipment repaired.

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5. We’re proud of how new our gadgets are; our parents were proud of how long their electronics lasted.

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6. Once we’re finished with things, we throw them away; our parents reused items all the time.

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7.We have one wall of wardrobe full of clothes; our parents had one steel cupboard for all their clothes.

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8. We can never have enough of accessories like deos, bags, etc; our parents didn’t even have deos.

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9. We buy all our ingredients from the market; our parents often had herbs, limes, etc growing in their gardens.

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10. We use credit cards to spend money we don’t have while our parents scrimped and saved their entire lives.

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