Making do

By the biggest shopping mall in the southern hemisphere did you mean Chadstone shopping centre? It's in Melbourne ... at least I thought it was the biggest...

lol iv bought nothing
apart from 10p noddles every meal
iv never had a phone and have not had a tv in 4years i do have a laptop
i worked 60hours every week for £60
am not a imagrent i am pure british
altho i did buy some boots a year ago

i"ll like to see you eat
1 Year OLD CHEESE
mmmm yummy
crackers

You ask why Christmas has been consumerized. Christmas has become a secular holiday, mainly because it has been forced upon the non-Christian society. Of course the "meaning" of Christmas will be secularized and consumerized.

LOL....making do ive been doing that for 30 years,in most cases i have to build my own stuff from scrap,,,,hmmm scrap heap...well you get the idea because i dont want to waste money on some over priced gadget that can be replicated or home made for little or nothing..

Did you buy the phone? No.

What's the problem?

He may not have bought it, but he would have still committed to a new 12 / 18 month contract. That's buying something. There no such thing as a free lunch. Sorry robert, I love you, but you sold out after a few days imo.

he didn't buy it so he didn't compromise himself

haven't you read his book? (I haven't)

kind of a sad attempt

I'm just off to that massive Bluewater Centre, to make an offering at the Altar of the High Temple to the Church of Avarice.