Alexia and buying shit on Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday and not having Alexia at home…

I do not have an Amazon account or for that matter internet at home. 💻 I certainly don’t have Alexia to talk to when I’m lonely or to command to buy shit 💩 for me. There is too much plastic crap in the world today, and I’m not talking about the shopping bags that people in Albany are talking about banning.

Technically, I could order things off of the E-commerce websites using my phone 📱 and sometimes I do 🎁 but rarely do I. I don’t like spending money on stupid stuff and Amazon is full of stupid stuff from China that nobody really needs. The sales and the subscription fee makes it so people waste money on the site. 💵 Being that I don’t drive to work, it’s not easy to go to the store 🏬 and buy things except on my weekly trips to the big box. Plus I pay to get rid of any trash I can’t recycle ♻ so I try to avoid waste as much as possible.

To be sure I sometimes will buy an odd component on Ebay or electronics parts off of Aliexpress. ✉ But that’s kind of different because when you order from those sites it can take a while for the products to arrive. And it’s not the instant gratification economy. I like to delay my purchases 🐢, wait for them to arrive and take advantage of delayed gratification.

I did buy something this Cyber Monday. I bought a 12 month certificate of deposit to replace the one that had matured, adding some extra money to it. 🎫 It’s not making a lot of interest but I know it’s locked away for a year where it can quietly grow and I can add more to it in the future. 🔮