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Making Your Shopping More Purposeful

people inside mall
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Understanding Why Purposeful Shopping Matters for Your Wellbeing

Shopping is such an everyday activity that it’s easy to overlook the habits behind it. Yet when buying becomes automatic or rushed, clutter accumulates, finances feel strained, and stress creeps in. Purposeful shopping invites a more thoughtful approach—one that reframes each purchase as a conscious decision rather than a reflex or emotional response. Even during times of financial pressure, when options such as a car title loan in Austin may come into consideration, adopting an intentional mindset can help bring a sense of balance and control. By paying closer attention to what you buy and why, your spending choices begin to reflect your priorities and support a more stable, values-driven lifestyle.

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Legless Cow Mural on Spring Street

Legless Cow Mural
Photo By Gail

Hey, check out this fun Graffiti Wall, which I spotted on Spring Street just west of Hudson Street, where the works of various different street artists are represented, including CON$UMR (Love Spray) and Libby Schoettle (Phoebe New York), and child street artist Ethan Armen (who is currently 9 years old!) among many others. What I want know though is who make this awesome Legless Cow? Tips in the Comments, Please!

Love Spray

Love Spray
Photo By Gail

Caution: Contents May Be Contagious. This Love Spray Can sticker / wheatpaste by Consumer can be spotted all over downtown, and the Chelsea Gallery District, which is where this photo was snapped.

love spray by consumer photo by gail worley

This one was spotted at loading dock in the Meatpacking District on July 18th, 2020.

Movie Review: Stink!

Stink Animated Movie Poster

The plots of many horror films, both modern and classic, often center on the tragic fate of individuals who take an interest in suspicious matters where their attention is neither wanted nor welcome. And while things rarely, if ever, work out well for the protagonists of those films, a provocative new documentary entitled Stink! aims to benefit, potentially, every consumer on the planet by revealing hidden truths about carcinogenic chemical ingredients contained in an innumerable list of products that we all eat, wear and put on our bodies every day. The cosmetic industry, the film points out, is especially lacking in federal regulation. It isn’t at all unlikely that the Chanel No 5 cologne that you spray on your body contains some of the same ingredients as your toilet bowl cleaner. Are you horrified? You will be by the time you’re about 20 minutes into Stink!
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Modern Art Monday Presents: I Shop Therefore I Am By Barbara Kruger

I Shop Therefore I Am By Barbara Kruger
Photographed By Gail at the Mary Boone Gallery on 24th Street in the Chelsea Gallery District

Commentary Below is Excerpted from Smithsonian Magazine‘s Barbara Kruger’s Artwork Speaks Truth to Power:

Even if you don’t know the name Barbara Kruger, you’ve probably seen her work in art galleries, on magazine covers or in giant installations that cover walls, billboards, buildings, buses, trains and tram lines all over the world. Kruger takes images from the mass media and pastes words over them, big, bold extracts of text — aphorisms, questions, slogans. Short machine-gun bursts of words that when isolated, and framed by Kruger’s gaze, linger in your mind, forcing you to think twice, thrice about clichés and catchphrases, introducing ironies into cultural idioms and the conventional wisdom they embed in our brains.

I Shop Therefore I Am, (1987), one of Kruger’s most famous works, makes a pointed critique of our consumer culture. Read more about the life and work of Barbara Kruger at the link above.