{"id":4450,"date":"2011-12-16T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2011-12-16T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:44:25","slug":"anti-consumerism-and-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=4450","title":{"rendered":"Anti-consumerism and anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it weird that I don&#8217;t want anything for Christmas? I&#8217;ve been looking at the deal sites just because it&#8217;s fun but nothing makes me go &#8220;oh, I wish I had that&#8221;. Does that mean I have too much? Or am I depressed? I know I&#8217;m stressed out a lot right now due to some changes at work, but I&#8217;m not sure why that would make my desire to consume disappear. Maybe it&#8217;s the articles I&#8217;ve been reading about having too much stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I went through the five Christmas decoration bins I have in the garage and am going to be giving away some of the stuff that I never use. I have one bin that is nothing but empty boxes, tins, and bags for gift-giving. I probably won&#8217;t have to ever buy gift bags again! I&#8217;m still using Christmas cards I bought years ago too.<\/p>\n<p>I think the one thing I&#8217;m looking forward to is just the time off to (hopefully) clear my mind of work for awhile and relax because January is going to be a hell of a busy month for me. <\/p>\n<p>On a related note, I&#8217;m back on Xanax. Ugh. I was only taking it if I had a panic attack but now I&#8217;m back to a pill a day. Mind you, it&#8217;s a quarter of a milligram which is nothing, but that little bit helps. <\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t I be one of those relaxed people who doesn&#8217;t get phased by anything? I&#8217;m the exact opposite and I hate it. I want to be calm at all times. I guess I can make that a 2012 goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it weird that I don&#8217;t want anything for Christmas? I&#8217;ve been looking at the deal sites just because it&#8217;s fun but nothing makes me go &#8220;oh, I wish I had that&#8221;. Does that mean I have too much? Or am I depressed? I know I&#8217;m stressed out a lot right now due to some changes at work, but I&#8217;m not sure why that would make my desire to consume disappear. Maybe it&#8217;s the articles I&#8217;ve been reading about having too much stuff. Incidentally, I went through the five Christmas decoration bins I have in the garage and am going to be giving away some of the stuff that I never use. I have one bin that is nothing but empty boxes, tins, and bags for gift-giving. I probably won&#8217;t have to ever buy gift bags again! I&#8217;m still using Christmas cards I bought years ago too. I think the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=4450\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}