Chris' consumption journal

I decided to break down my information into essential and non-essential, because I feel like I got the most out of that graph. A lot of things that I use everyday seem so non-essential, when just considering my primary needs, but so essential when just considering my personal needs. I mean it is possible to walk to school and not take the TTC, but how long will that take? It is also possible to not have a cell phone, but that little device has slowly become apart of my life that I didn’t even realize until I was making this chart. I began wondering about things that I use everyday and wondered if I really do need them, like the cell phone. This made me realize the days when I forgot my cell phone at home, and how helpless I feel when I needed to check the time, make a call or just using it as entertainment device to pass the time. It made me realize that even thought it may seem like some of the things that I use seen like it is non-essential, they have slow became essential things in our everyday modern life.

I also wanted to know when in my day do I use the most. I feel that if I can figure that out, maybe I can cut back a little and save some energy or materials during that time. I have realized I use a lot during my mornings and afternoon. It could be because I did my journal during a school day, when I was busy, taking the bus, printing projects, sketching for my classes and so on. I have also notice that at nighttime, I hardly use much, except for things that I might have on the whole day, like my cell phone. I have also notice I use my computer quite a lot and it seems like I cant live with out it. Just going through my list, I can’t even figure out which items I should keep and which I shouldn’t, this got me thinking about how much I have been brought in by this whole consumption driven economy.