{"id":17229,"date":"2025-01-12T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/the-internet-wants-me-to-spend-500-on-a-jumper-how-can-i-say-no\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:37:48","slug":"the-internet-wants-me-to-spend-500-on-a-jumper-how-can-i-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/the-internet-wants-me-to-spend-500-on-a-jumper-how-can-i-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"The internet wants me to spend \u00a3500 on a jumper. How can I say no?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I already have too much stuff \u2013 and every time I go online I\u2019m being pushed to buy more. Time to channel my inner deinfluencer<\/p>\n

I am uneasily aware that around this time last year I wrote that my drive to acquire material things had somewhat subsided: I was older and wiser, had everything I needed, was repelled by the sheer volume of stuff <\/em>in the world, blah blah blah.<\/a> Unfortunately, the internet seemingly viewed that as fighting talk, an impossible-to-turn-down challenge, and in recent months I have once more found myself wanting stuff. Lots of stuff.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not surprising perhaps \u2013 stuff is everywhere, whispering, or shouting, to us from every screen we stare at. \u201cThe constant stream of ads on Instagram is exhausting,\u201d said my best friend gloomily just last week, and she\u2019s right: my eyes are constantly assaulted with offers of miracle goop for my mature skin, wellness gadgetry, expensive knitwear and greenwashed \u201cdisruptors\u201d of almost everything. I just spent a minute scrolling and was offered, in quick succession, a \u201ccalfPRO\u201d (no idea, alarming), kombucha, cleanser, an eco frying pan, \u201creminiscent of Phoebe Philo-era Celine\u201d jumpers and, bafflingly, Canadian sea urchins.<\/p>\n

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\nI already have too much stuff \u2013 and every time I go online I\u2019m being pushed to buy more. Time to channel my inner deinfluencer
\nI am uneasily aware that around this time last year I wrote that my drive to acquire material things had somewhat subsided: I was older and wiser, had everything I needed, was repelled by the sheer volume of stuff in the world, blah blah blah. Unfortunately, the internet seemingly viewed that as fighting talk, an impossible-to-turn-down challenge, and in recent months I have once more found myself wanting stuff. Lots of stuff.
\nIt\u2019s not surprising perhaps \u2013 stuff is everywhere, whispering, or shouting, to us from every screen we stare at. \u201cThe constant stream of ads on Instagram is exhausting,\u201d said my best friend gloomily just last week, and she\u2019s right: my eyes are constantly assaulted with offers of miracle goop for my mature skin, wellness gadgetry, expensive knitwear and greenwashed \u201cdisruptors\u201d of almost everything. I just spent a minute scrolling and was offered, in quick succession, a \u201ccalfPRO\u201d (no idea, alarming), kombucha, cleanser, an eco frying pan, \u201creminiscent of Phoebe Philo-era Celine\u201d jumpers and, bafflingly, Canadian sea urchins. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I already have too much stuff \u2013 and every time I go online I\u2019m being pushed to buy more. Time to channel my inner deinfluencer I am uneasily aware that around this time last year I wrote that my drive to acquire material things had somewhat subsided: I was older and wiser, had everything I …<\/p>\n

The internet wants me to spend \u00a3500 on a jumper. How can I say no?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}