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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Consumerism”

• Walmart sells Lexmark wireless multifunction printer for $59

  
  The Toybox — Authority: 625
  If you’re looking for a new printer, scanner and copier — perhaps one that operates wirelessly — this deal’s for you. Walmart is now selling the Lexmark X4650 wireless all-in-one printer for $59 . The 802.11b/g X4650 offers dual-cartridge printing and manages 25 pages per minute in black and 18 ...
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• Couponing Makes Cents – Consumerism Commentary, personal finance …

  
  The Wealthy Soul — Authority: 154
  The latest Carnival of Personal Finance is online at Broke-Ass… Honda Hybrid at $10000: According to the Japan Stock Blog (the original source is.. View post: Couponing Makes Cents – Consumerism Commentary, personal finance …
  5 hours ago

• Hustlin’ Like a Kirby Salesman

  
  FOBBDeep: Fear of a Brown Blogger — Authority: 108
  While previewing Wale’s official debut album, Attention Deficit, it only took one minute and twenty seconds for me to hear a a line that conjured up memories of childhood and my parents.  A sexist yet clever simile connecting oral sex to a $1,000+ vacuum cleaner: the Kirby. Who else has childhood memories of the ...
  6 hours ago

• Consumerism and Christmas

  
  Retro Housewife Goes Green — Authority: 467
  As a religious holiday for Christians, Christmas should be about Jesus birth. Its the only birthday I know of were everyone but the person with the birthday gets gifts. We rush around buying gifts that are often useless and unwanted. Credit debit goes through the roof and often you hear people say they are glad its ...
  8 hours ago

• PATENTLY COPYWRONG

  
  It Must Be the Vapors — Authority: 120
  I just left a site with a giant copyright symbol and statement at the top of his side bar to return here with a clear explanation of why I see assuming the authority to control the interpretation of a voluntarily overt act second only to the usury such assumptions enable that riddles western civilization with the ...
  10 hours ago

• Money Changes Physician-Patient Relationship

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 563
  As medical costs escalate employers and insurers are requiring individuals to pay more of the bill with increased deductibles and out of pocket co-pays. This new consumerism may call for physicians to talk to patients about money, according to researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Requiring ...
  10 hours ago

• inoculating us against reality

  
  MAKE WEALTH HISTORY — Authority: 426
  I saw an interesting juxtaposition of billboards on my way through the station forecourt this morning. The first was for the Prince of Wales’ rainforest project, Rainforest SOS , and right behind it was a billboard from the Brazilian tourist board. The fact that we can’t all fly on holiday to Brazil and save the ...
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• Gasoline Price Causing Big-Vehicle Sales

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 599
  The retail price of gasoline in the U.S. is extremely low, not just compared to the summer of 2008. Subsidies both direct and hidden create a true cost at least a few times higher than the visible price. The actual cost is paid largely through income taxes (such as for wars in the Middle East and domestic ...
  12 hours ago

• Best (Non)Advertisement Ever

  
  EarthFirst.com — Authority: 497
  Isn’t it nice to look up at a billboard, just once, to see that no one is trying to shove a product down your throat? A joy, indeed – and a nice thing to see at the outset of the holiday season, when, nearly 2 months from Christmas, we’re already being bombarded with “BUY ME!” ads. Via [ Treehugger ]
  13 hours ago

• Selfish Europe is “dying” claims Chief Rabbi

  
  Interfaith — Authority: 127
  Europe is a “dying” continent whose people are too selfish to have children, the Chief Rabbi claimed this week. Lord Sacks said Europe’s secularism and its culture of “consumerism and instant gratification” were to blame for the continent’s declining population. Europe is the most secular region in the ...
  14 hours ago

• “A change process begins with an awareness that something needs to change.”

  
  Youth Ministry Blog — Authority: 108
  I’ve been thinking of doing something like this for a worship space, but I  guess someone’s already beat me too it (and much more beautifully designed than I’d have done it as well). The guys behind Flowmarket ( Mads Hagstrøm ) have set up temporary stores selling their products which they themselves ...
  22 hours ago

• New Staff Writer, Quicken 2010 Winners, and Best of October …

  
  The Wealthy Soul — Authority: 154
  In October, we discussed unconventional paths to becoming a millionaire with the Millionaire Mommy Next Door, financial advisers with Neal Frankle, doing-it-yourself, beekeeping, and the Credit.com Credit Report Card with Mark Frauenfelder, … Waging a property tax appeal hardly a sure bet It’s Only Money; ...
  23 hours ago

• Secrets of the Season

  
  The Green Phone Booth — Authority: 469
  From the bean of Green Bean. Photo of my sons toes courtesy of photographer, friend and blogger extraordinaire, Jess Nichols. With the holidays hot on our heels, many greenies are thinking about what to buy. Or not to buy. Simple Mom offers a list of 10 Clutter-Free (and earth friendly) ideas ...
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• Consumer credit down, but does it show deleveraging?

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 664
  I have just taken a look at the consumer credit figures for September, released just yesterday by the Federal Reserve. The data do show some modest deleveraging, especially when looking at the recent increase in nominal GDP. However, it is still not clear to me that the scale of deleveraging is great enough to induce ...
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• Makeup and mutinies

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  The Mineral Makeup Mutiny was founded to encourage consumers to buy indie self-made mineral cosmetics, instead of overpriced makeup that were repackaging wholesale micas from companies such as TKB Trading , or publishing contradicting ingredients lists and sending Cease-and-Desist Letters to unfavourable ...
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• Beef Jerky Action Cam??

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  I am not making this up. Here I am, watching the big college football game of the week on tv — LSU v Alabama — suddenly wondering how I can be so riveted by any meme that involves a “beef jerky action cam!”Posted in colleges and universities, Cynical Stuff, Framing, Health, Humor, Identity, Language, ...
  2 days ago

• Service Industry Lessons

  
  Non Sequitur — Authority: 103
  The epic movie Lonesome Dove had its moments. One of the best was this little lesson on customer interaction in the food service industry…
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• Green Living: Leading by Example or Passive Aggressive Preaching?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 723
  Image credit: South Park / Comedy Central As I noted in my post on The Art of the Eco-argument , were often better off leading our own lives than telling others how to lead theirs. In fact, if eco-snobbery is left unchecked , it could lead to a major backlash against the environmental movement. But, having ...
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• This Happened Yesterday

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 542
  NEW YORK, NY-Yesterday, early evening, I went to the Strand Bookstore on 12th Street and Broadway.  The store is just slightly overflowing with used and new books presented on tables and in aisles of shelves that almost reach the ceiling, reminding me of a school library.   “Eighteen Miles of Books” is their ...
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• Ethical travel company drops carbon offsetting

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Critics say the scheme merely permits people to continue pollutingJerome Taylor, The Independent 7 Nov 09;One of Britains leading ethical travel operators has launched a scathing attack on the carbon offset industry and has decided to stop offering offsets to its customers as a way of reducing their greenhouse gas ...
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