I overheard a rather consumerist colleague last week saying that they had booked an appointment to see a financial advisor the following day. This morning there was a delivery of no less than five parcels from Amazon, which is actually slightly more than most other days. Not sure I think much of her financial advisor....
To be fair, if people judged my consumerism by the amount of packages I receive, they'd get a really skewed perspective of my finances.
A) I have kids. The nearest thrift store is 30km away, and crappy, and sells used Walmart clothing for the price of new old navy clothing... Which delivers to my door, for free, with free returns of anything we don't want. If I'm gonna pay 4$ for a pair of shorts, I don't want to pay gas for a 70km round-trip along with it.
B) country living. There is not a single store within 25km, and most stores are in the nearest city 50km away. So: a lot of little things (spare rubber gasket for the blender, parts to fix the fridge door, etc) are ordered online just because it's that or pay for gas to then pay the same cost in-store 50km away.
On an average week, I get 5-6 packages. Usually for a total cost of less than 50$, and usually parts to fix things or things that are so much cheaper online that it doesn't make sense to drive to the store. But, yeah, I can see how it looks.