Curious wrote

My wife and daughter have just gone out to the sales, what bliss to have the house to myself. I
will save a fortune by just staying
indoors for the next fortnight. Why this obsession with shopping,
irrespective of whether the items are needed or not? I got another
pullover for Christmas, but I have several already that I can't wear
out, and I can only wear one at once. And more boxer shorts, so that draw is now full.

Time to trade both those women in on something more appropriate.

Corse you were actually stupid enough to marry her,
that might have some real financial downsides now.

And as for keep buying food, I was speaking to my brother-in-law yesterday who said that they had
lots of food left over from Christmas, they won't be able to eat it, and it will have to be thrown
out.

Presumably there's a genetic problem there somewhere.

What a waste, especially when so many people in large areas of the World are dying of hunger.

Bugger all now actually. And that only happens when they are stupid
enough to care more about killing each other than feeding themselves
now. Just a tad worse than an obsession with shopping.

In many parts of Africa if you want protein you have to poke about in an ants nest then knock the
ants off into a bucket, there are no supermarkets with packets of meat, in fact no shops at all.

There's almost no where in africa like that anymore.

And those who are stupid enough to 'live' like that...

At least with unwanted Christmas presents you can give them to a charity shop and they will do
some good.

We give all our unwanted stuff to the hospice shop to help care for those poor buggers dying from
cancer.

Presumably they can afford to buy stuff like that themselves.

But what can you do with unwanted food?

Dont buy it in the first place, stupid.