Are You Ready For Black Friday?

Black Friday is an informal name for the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the fourth Thursday of November, which has been regarded as the beginning of the country's Christmas shopping season since 1952, although the term "Black Friday" did not become widely recognized or used until the 1980s or later in some regions. Most major retailers open very early, as early as overnight hours, and offer promotional sales. 

Black Friday has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States since 2005. 

So are you ready for this crazy Black Friday and what do you wanna buy? A dragon? Kidding, but a freezer, a griddle or an ice machine from EQCHEN could be a good choice. 

But here is a warning. With the fast growth of online shopping, many people just buy lost of stuff that they do not need much. 

Whether it is consumerism or something else – any kind of “ism” will lead to a certain mindlessness. Mindless consumerism is definitely not towards human wellbeing. Consumption used to be a disease, you know? Even now, it is a kind of ailment. That is, we do not do what is needed in our lives – we do what is expected by others. People who expect whatever they expect out of you, they themselves do not know a thing about their lives. If you live to fulfill their expectations, obviously, your life will go off the track. So the advertising industry should focus on creating conscious consumption rather than mindless consumerism.

Shopaholic. Even the word itself sounds faintly ridiculous, doesn’t it? It is a word frequently bandied affectionately by the most generous husband about a wife who has been on a spree. Aggravated by the rampant consumerism of the last decades, the problem is on the rise and we are now finally going to have to stop poking fun at the shopaholics and take their problem seriously. Compulsive shoppers suffer from an inexplicable preoccupation with shopping and spending. They are generally thought to get a dopamine-related high or hit from their purchases. Yet few are ever even used or worn and, once they have their booty home, the post-purchase shopper often collapses in self-recrimination and anxiety about how they are going to pay for their next fix. Around 5.8 percent of British adults are thought to be affected and cases are on the rise.

Now, psychiatrists have established that a drug called memantine, originally designed for patients with Alzheimer's, may have a significant benefit for shopaholics. Clinical tests have shown improvement in many key symptoms, such as impulsive buying, anxiety, and improvements in brain function linked to the impulsive urges and behavior. Our culture revolves around consumption. Despite our straitened economic times, we are still surrounded, 24/7, by potent and relentless marketing and advertising which promotes impossibly high material aspirations, creating utterly artificial wants and needs.

So even Black Friday is probably the happiest Friday for whole Americans, but choose the products that suit you and you need. 

Reference: 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2151580/Our-culture-consumption-glorifies-compulsive-shopping-It-time-treat-shopaholic-like-addict.html