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• The Kingdom of Bhutan uses a Gross National Happiness index to determine it's progress, as opposed to a Gross National Product, so that quality of life is prioritised over wealth. The dimensions of happiness include psycholigical wellbeing, community vitality and education.
• Research among children and adolescents in Chicago has shown that as people's self esteem increases their materialism decreases, and concluded that materialism is a result of low self-esteem.
• The phrase "comspicous consumption" was coined byThorstein Veblen, a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist who wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) and criticised our consumer culture .
• Dr. Jorge Majfud says that "Trying to reduce environmental pollution without reducing consumerism is like combatting drug trafficking without reducing the drug addiction."
• We are already consuming 30% more material than is sustainable from the world's resources. At present, 85 countries exceed their domestic "bio-capacities", compensating for their lack of local material by depleting stocks elsewhere, in countries that have "surpluses" because they're not consuming as much. 
• Research shows being politically or socially active makes you more likely to be happier. This goes against the popular wisdom that happiness resides in creature comforts and relative affluence. Perhaps activism gives people a sense of purpose, or of agency or just a chance to hang out with other people.
• Children in the UK received around £5 billion of Christmas presents in 2009. 
• The average UK child received around £380 worth of presents in 2009, compared to £316 in 2008.
• In total, UK kids had over £4 billion worth of toys and other presents underneath their trees, along with £960 million in cash, with each child receiving an average of £73. More than a quarter of lucky UK children got £100 or more.
• Around £200 is spent on presents that won’t make it past Easter