Shop less. Live more.

October is Buy Nothing New Month, and that's their slogan: Shop Less. Live More.

This quote about consumption is doubly true.

There's the hours we spend to earn the money to spend. Then there's the hours bustling around shopping centres and malls searching out the thing we want (or that advertising has told us we want).

Of course there's also the issue of where we put all this stuff we buy.

Do we just buy a bigger house (with a bigger mortgage) or do we put it in storage?

"The Japanese may have tidiness but in America we have storage lockers - our only growth industry." - Marge Simpson.

I found these stats about the US storage industry.

I find it such a waste that after spending so much to buy all this stuff we then spend another $22 billion to store it. Shocking.

Clearly we need to be less addicted to purchasing. Buy Nothing New Month is a great way to start. Are you with me?

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