Thanksgiving, the holiday that gotten eaten alive.

[Honeycombe8]

55. Sheeple are easily led. How many of youse guys have an Apple product?

How many of you stood in line to get that Apple product?

I watch this over and over in America. Some company hypes up something, a new gizmo or a big sale shopping day or whatever, and people get all excited and just HAVE to have it or do it or buy it. It's hard not to get sucked into it.

But I guess people can get sucked into things, because it keeps happening. Even though someone has an iPhone, they feel the need to get an upgraded iPhone (it's THE thing to have! it's so much better!).

But these hypes can be resisted, if you live your buying life differently. If you learn to distinguish between NEED and WANT, that helps. And try not to spend money, period. That puts a brake on many purchases.

You save a lot of money, a lot of stress, a lot of time. You buy what you NEED, then what you WANT (Christmas gifts are a WANT, BTW)...and when you shop the sales, you look for those things you've already identified as needing or wanting to buy.

I still get caught up in it. My heart will actually start beating faster, when I'm heading to a store that I know will have a lot of cheap good stuff on sale. But I'm able to resist most of it.

Christmas to me does not mean gifts, for me or anyone. I buy them for children, but not adults, unless they insist on buying for me, which of course means I have to get them something. Silly.