Comments on: The Story of Stuff http://bencrawfordlife.com/2008/12/26/the-story-of-stuff/ trying to reveal truth in a way that changes people's lives. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:24:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ben http://bencrawfordlife.com/2008/12/26/the-story-of-stuff/#comment-500 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:43:17 +0000 http://bencrawfordlife.wordpress.com/?p=892#comment-500 rbow – So these are the two ideas that I have come up with for the Crawford Family as a response to this video.
1. We are not going to buy any new clothes this year. There are plenty of clothes of all shapes, sizes, and brands available at the thrift store. “Yes” they are “used.” “Yes” it will cut down on consumption, and therefore, production.
2. We are going to order less at restaurants. If we are going back and forth on whether or not to order more or less, we will order less. If we still want food we can always order more. This will be a better alternative than either stuffing ourselves or throwing away left-overs.

It’s kind of strange that with either of these two things I don’t think that there will be any quality of life difference. It’s merely re-thinking the power of the ominous golden arrow.

Jason, these are my two drops into a very big pond. But now that I think about the number of kids we’re having maybe it’s going to be a lot of drops.

]]> By: jasondiffner http://bencrawfordlife.com/2008/12/26/the-story-of-stuff/#comment-499 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:28:00 +0000 http://bencrawfordlife.wordpress.com/?p=892#comment-499 I “know” this to be true, but my lifestyle proves I don’t believe this to be true.
We need to get to the the bottom of this (and related issues – e.g., complicity in exploitation of third world labor to support our Western lifestyle, etc.) issue and resolve to live an authentic economic lifestyle.

]]> By: rainbow http://bencrawfordlife.com/2008/12/26/the-story-of-stuff/#comment-494 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:28:05 +0000 http://bencrawfordlife.wordpress.com/?p=892#comment-494 i want to know your ideas for making changes this year. As far as I know you aren’t on the “work, buy, watch” treadmill… and it’s hard for me to think of the last time you guys bought ANYTHING.

]]> By: Jeremy Pryor http://bencrawfordlife.com/2008/12/26/the-story-of-stuff/#comment-491 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:17:49 +0000 http://bencrawfordlife.wordpress.com/?p=892#comment-491 Awesome video! Thanks for posting this.

By the way, I almost just watched the 6 minutes version because the 2nd embedded video (full version) was under the “keep reading” link. Maybe you should remove that in your WordPress settings . ;)

]]> By: Jon http://bencrawfordlife.com/2008/12/26/the-story-of-stuff/#comment-489 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:56:10 +0000 http://bencrawfordlife.wordpress.com/?p=892#comment-489 I think the same people who were behind animating this did “The History of Evil”

]]> By: Jon http://bencrawfordlife.com/2008/12/26/the-story-of-stuff/#comment-488 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:48:30 +0000 http://bencrawfordlife.wordpress.com/?p=892#comment-488 love your neighbor.

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