Who are you and where do you live? How did you start coming to The Non-Consumer Advocate and what kept you coming back? How has non-consumerism affected your life, and what has been your family’s reaction to any changes you may have made? Essentially, what makes you a non-consumer? I will be checking in frequently throughout the day and I’ll try to reply to all comments. We’re here in America, and we’re all over the world. We find like-minded people to remind ourselves that our frugal and simple aspirations are admirable rather than weird. We share ideas and commiserate about our daily struggles. But The Non-Consumer Advocate is more than a blog about a single person, it is a community. And I try not to take myself too seriously. I buy almost nothing new, find joy in the simple tasks of daily life, and scour thrift shops like my life depended upon it. A wife, a mother, a nurse, a sister, an aunt, a daughter and a lover of all things non-consumerish.

Who Are You & What Makes You a Non-Consumer? As The Non-Consumer Advocate, you all know who I am.

I invite you to share your stories in the comments section below. The original blog post had 251 comments, and were a fascinating reread so I recommend that you click over to time travel back ten years. I first published this blog post in 2013, but am reposting it a mere decade later as I’m sure I’ve assembled a few new readers since then.

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