Due to the nature of our society, people blindly consume more without seeing the consequences. In my sociology class yesterday, my professor held a class discussion on whether or not less is more (in weddings). Although the majority of the class believed that weddings should be extremely lavish, a few deemed that a wedding should be just as simply focus on the marriage and not the party. I was in the small group who also believed that less is more.

People do not realize that limitations inspires creativity. By allotting oneself with a budget, your money will “stretch.” (I’ll get into that in another post). Our capitalist society forces us to excessively spend money on the hottest things in the market. My prime example is the clothing industry, which is still generating so much in this pitiful economy. I love to shop, but I try to shop smart. We have or know people in our life who tend to shop like there is no tomorrow. They need to realize that they don’t need 5 boxes full of make-up or 15 pairs of jeans or 30 different pairs of shoes to look good.

It’s nice to have a little more than the average Joe, but such people must realize that their superficial clutter in their minuscule closets is costing them more than they realize. I’ll try to illustrate what I mean by a simile: Clothes that’s never going see daylight again is like paying extra rent for your closet space. People who rent houses must pay monthly payments in order to keep their place of residency, and the nonessential junk is like extra fee to that space that could be more efficiently utilized.

I never really understood why people complain about how little money they have when they have too much to wear and too little space to put it. Why not sell the unused clothing? Deep down inside, these people knows they won’t wear it again. Buying new clothes to freshen the wardrobe while keeping unworn clothing from high school will not help you anymore than a credit card debt is left unpaid.