Truth is, there’s precious little I need from Amazon, let alone need in a hurry. It mostly comes down to wants, supplies for projects which are themselves entirely optional, etc. As such, I will let a “want” item sit in my cart for weeks until it is joined by enough other want items to make the $25 or $35 or whatever arbitrary limit they have set to erase the arbitrary $6.99 small order shipping fee.
I don’t like to think about how much I have spent there, and elsewhere online, for things I don’t really need. I do like to take arbitrary months off from buying anything optional, kind of like intermittent fasting - gives me time to finish out things I have started, clean up stuff I have abandoned, do things that don’t require “stuff.”
If I am typical, the world could boycott over 80% of their amazon.com purchases without even bothering to get the stuff from elsewhere, and 80% of the remaining 20% could be sourced elsewhere, perhaps for 10-20% higher cost, perhaps not even that.
Truth is, there’s precious little I need from Amazon, let alone need in a hurry. It mostly comes down to wants, supplies for projects which are themselves entirely optional, etc. As such, I will let a “want” item sit in my cart for weeks until it is joined by enough other want items to make the $25 or $35 or whatever arbitrary limit they have set to erase the arbitrary $6.99 small order shipping fee.
I don’t like to think about how much I have spent there, and elsewhere online, for things I don’t really need. I do like to take arbitrary months off from buying anything optional, kind of like intermittent fasting - gives me time to finish out things I have started, clean up stuff I have abandoned, do things that don’t require “stuff.”
If I am typical, the world could boycott over 80% of their amazon.com purchases without even bothering to get the stuff from elsewhere, and 80% of the remaining 20% could be sourced elsewhere, perhaps for 10-20% higher cost, perhaps not even that.