Sentences with phrase «buying more stuff»

«If you are in a business, buying more stuff instead of fixing your core business is not a solution,» says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., a national retail consulting & investment banking firm headquartered in New York City.

On the one hand, raising awareness of specific activities and actions we can take to live more sustainably is a key component of becoming the change we want to see in the world, but on the other hand, buying more stuff for Earth Day, even if it's described as «green,» just creates more of an environmental boondoggle.

What it really wants is someone to promise them they can keep on doing what they're used to doing: buying more stuff they can't afford, eating more bad food that will kill them, and driving more miles than circumstances will allow.

So I bought three books, going over my gift certificate amount, partly because they were playing choral religious music, like a dirge or a requiem or something at St. Marks Bookshop and it heightened my feeling of sadness that the store seemed so much smaller than their original location and I felt guilty for not buying more stuff from them over the years.

Burning different objects produces different effects, and each successfully incinerated object produces money for buying more stuff to burn.

Also more likely to miss a release entirely because I decided to wait for a sale or for a time I am buying more stuff, and then I just forget about buying whatever it was altogether.

I've noticed something about my shopping habits — I'm spending less money in big - box stores and buying more stuff from smaller outfits that specialize in just one or two product...

This is because you can add to your debt by buying more stuff.

Last year Amazon updated the home screen on Kindle ereaders and lots of people complained (myself included) about how it made the home screen look like one big advertisement for buying more stuff from Amazon.

I know I will never be famous or a blogger with an account with followers in the 6 figures, so why give myself the pressure of buying more stuff & just end up breaking the bank.

The truth is your family habits won't change until you're convinced that buying more stuff won't make you or your children happier,

I tried to get your grandparents to take you kids somewhere for your birthdays way back in the 1980's instead of just buying your more stuff.

In the recent lunacy that resulted from Harold Camping's outrageous predictions, I heard some crazy stories of people quitting their jobs, and selling all their stuff (or buying more stuff... I'm not sure why), all because they thought the world was ending.

Trump could entice the world to buy more stuff, but he rarely frames the deficit that way.

The optimist's take on this trend is that robots help Amazon keep prices low, which means people buy more stuff, which means the company needs more people to man its warehouses even though it needs fewer human hours of labor per package.

Be nothing, do nothing, say nothing, watch more television, buy more stuff.

Robber barons donated to schools, libraries, museums, etc. to make a better America because they knew that an educated and cultured population would make more money to buy more stuff to make the robber barons more money.

Like he has shown no ambition for his other clubs and uses them as wealth assets to get loans to buy more stuff, like the Ranch he recently bought.

: LOL We have CD'd our youngest since birth and it was no more work than disposables, and it's so much more awesome when I don't have to «run to the store» and buy more stuff.

Will likely buy more stuff from this website, depending on price of course.

A larger drive to consumption with the explosion of advertisement (in order to create «percieved obsolescence» for instance, make people buy more stuff)

It consists in making people buy more stuff by making the so called stuff break faster / out of fashion /... Thus maintaining the consumption levels.

Economic collapse comes to mind, but there is population growth, decisions to buy more stuff, human migration, changes in agriculture and the food system — plus wars and more.

Bought some more stuff!

I want to go back and buy more stuff now.

They want us to have a warm fuzzy feeling when we think about them, which will lead us to ignore their growing reputation as horrible bosses, and go buy some more stuff at their stores.

Tablets represent an opportunity for Bezos not only to sell a new kind of device but also to entice people to buy more stuff.

Tablets represent a huge opportunity for Bezos, not only to sell a new kind of device but also to entice people to buy more stuff.

Inevitably the solution for conquering clutter requires that you buy more stuff: there's the drawer décor kit that will let you trim - to - fit a silicone mat to stop your utensils from rolling around the in the drawer.

Personally I would use the extra money to pay off more student loans or increase my savings rate, but most people would buy more stuff which is what the economy wants.

You work more to have more money to buy more Stuff... but because you have so much Stuff, you need more money, which means you have to work more.

Shops want you to take on debt so you will buy more stuff, banks want you in debt for the interest they receive from -LSB-...]

Keep it close throughout the year as you resist the temptation to buy more stuff that you can't pay for.

The problem that I've heard happens most is that people will consolidate, successfully resulting in a lower payment, but then they'll use that «saving» to buy more stuff instead of working to reduce the debt load or save.

«If you have a customer who comes in and sees the same stuff every time, they don't have the impulse to buy more stuff,» George says.

buy more stuff to get something free?

For the uninitiated, Little Inferno involves throwing stuff into a furnace and watching it burn for cash (which is then used to buy more stuff to burn).

You've got to go out and buy more stuff.

In other words, someone who acquires a house that uses 80 % less energy than other houses suddenly has more disposable income, and is therefore likely to buy more stuff or go on more vacations.

People who are given benefits do not care for the things they buy, so they tend to buy more stuff.

The key is that wealthier households use more energy, on average — they drive and fly more, have bigger (and sometimes multiple) houses, and buy more stuff that requires energy to manufacture and use.

Scientifically this leads to an irreversible upward trend in Mr. Feelys ability to buy more stuff.

So, isn't this just another excuse for consumers to buy more stuff, even if it's green?

Rather than throwing them away, or donating them only to make room so that you can buy more stuff, the greenest thing to do would be to trade these items for things you want and need.

They can also tell you verbally when they take your card: what they might tell you is «We will add a $ 1.00 fee», or «We will round the amount up to $ 10», or «Sorry, you have to buy more stuff to use a credit card».

Some children — particularly younger ones — may not realize that the «buy more stuff» option in a free game actually adds charges to the credit card you have saved on your tablet or smartphone.

The home screen even contains Amazon's shopping site, making it easy to buy more stuff — and give Amazon more money.

Apple can do this because it makes a bigger profit margin on its hardware, whereas its main rivals turn user interactions from their lower - cost devices into business opportunities — Amazon hopes you'll buy more stuff through your Echo, and Google can target you with more advertising.

Simply, when the economy is growing as it is now, people buy more stuff to store and when the economy slows, individuals and businesses downsize and store more stuff.

(Probably a ruse to make people buy more stuff, but I ain't knocking it.)