My Consumer Timeline
Posted by cstipek on February 22nd, 2009
When I was little, I thought you were a grown-up the day you looked forward to receiving kitchenware for your birthday and Christmas. I have reached that day, but I do not feel grown up. It’s strange the way we validate ages and mindset with the products we buy. This is my consumption timeline tracking my childhood years to the present:
Although images explain a lot, I will give a brief explanation of why I chose these images to describe my habits. As a babe my main desires were toys and candy; pretty basic. However, because I grew up with a twin brother, one of my main goals at that time in my life was to either define myself separately from my brother in some cases, and be linked with him in others. I wanted to show that I was a girl but at the same time, as I grew older, I wanted to be versatile in gender associated products and activities. He and I saved up our money for roller blades and we spent long hours outside drawing street signs with chalk on our driveway. We also shared a gameboy and played games like Darkwing Duck, Mortal Combat, Mario, and Tiny Toon Adventures.
Eventually I became infatuated with the idea of being OLDER. One of the main desires of pre teens is to be able to participate in activities that usually cause parents to say “…not until your older.” I have an older sister, so anything I could participate in with her made my day (although my tag-along tendencies did not inspire much sisterly affection from her). Basically, if she wore make up, I wanted to wear it and if her and her friends acted out mock fashion shows, count me in. Movies became a major hang out location for my friends and I since we were too young to go to most places yet too old to stay at home with our parents on a ‘playdate’. I wanted to hold onto markers that signaled to myself and others that I was becoming independent. These markers I could easily buy and be convincing.
Eventually I got fed up with worrying about convincing others of my newfound independence; it can be extremely exhausting. I wasn’t secure enough to completely let go of self-identifying markers so I held on to music. I was also finally allowed to go off campus for lunch during my junior and senior years of high school so I blew a lot of money on fast food and eating out.
Music is still something I relate very strongly with today and has become a huge motivator in my life. I also try to cook for myself more so I am spending more money on groceries. As I grow older and become more confident with myself, I find that I need markers to define myself less and less so I don’t buy them as much.
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