Is this what's going on?

In the "about" blurb somewhere for this writer, it was reported that she has a book forthcoming in the new year, entitled Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping. She must have purchased necessities (food and business consumables, for instance); in any case, I'll be on the watch for this book. We do have pumpkins bought to carve but they're in a good cause; otherwise, I personally have no shopping urges right now, not even for necessities, preferring to draw down the squirrel shelf. What's not in use is being discarded outright or, where applicable, passed along so that it may in some way useful elsewhere. There are reports in the business press that the federal government is counting on consumer activity to brighten the outlook for the national economy. We're not alone in our household (non-)purchasing behavior right now. Here we are, buying food, but otherwise using the library, listening to old vinyl, re-reading books on hand, mending this and that, and not even planning to do much garden investment, beyond the cheapie and inferior bulb selections left for sale when most people think it's too late to put them in the ground. Any sort of acquisition much beyond the truly necessary does, for whatever reason, strike a note of the unseemly.