http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/08/cold-turkey-on-christmas-consumerismNothing too radical and the last paragraph is more downbeat than I would've liked but it's nice to see a little Mustachian spirit reaching England this Christmas :-) I quite liked this paragraph:
Like going cold turkey on Christmas consuming. Or, as I like to think of it, replacing shopping with living. So on Black Friday I borrowed three books for the baby from our local library. On Cyber Monday I spent nothing but some energy on feeling smug. It’s all taking me back to that vintage Christmas of 1988 when I took a book off my mum’s shelf (Battles at Thrush Green by Miss Read, if you must know), wrapped it and gave it right back to her. She never realised, and I’ve never stopped congratulating myself. It was the best of times.
