The 25 day blog post streak was broken but that was only because Doug and I were off getting a shellacking in the wilderness - more on that in a later post.
This post is, to quote William Shakespeare is about how "your greatest strength begets your greatest weakness." Doug and I hate shopping with the kind of passion that is generally only reserved for politics and romantic interests. In many ways, this is a wonderful way to live. We don't feel avarice for the possessions of other people, we are largely impervious to our pervasive consumption culture, we save money as well as precious environmental resources, and we don't have to deal with reams of junk that we bought thinking it would make us eternally happy (hint: it never does).
There is, however, a point at which avoiding shopping makes more problems than it avoids, and that is when the weather is shit, the bush is thick, and your gear is not up to the task at hand because it is between 10 and 30 years old and has long ago worn completely out.
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