Buy buy buy!

It seems that nowadays buying is essential in modern life.
From the very moment we start watching TV, and that is very early, we are exposed to thousands of ads that show products as indispensable for us to have a beautiful and happy life.
The ads show gorgeous people smoking or drinking a certain brand and someway that seems to act in our brain to impel us consuming as if we buy such or such brand of drink, cigarette or whatever,we will become all of the sudden in beautiful and successful creatures.
Television influenced so much in the our choices even to buy simple things like rice or noodle we rely on TV.I think this influence is harmful especially for children who more than ever think that possessing is a synonym of happiness. They feel very frustrated when parents can not afford what that "NEED" because everything seems to be necessary for them, from a PlayStation to a cell phone.
Not only children but also adults, especially women, have the impulse to buy things that they do not need but just want.
Technology has also increased the spirit of consuming because there are so many gadgets to buy and most of the people desires the last cell phone as to show status to give one example of the thousands there are.
In what respects to me I can say I am a consumer; I do not know how to save . I am always tempted to buy everything especially when I am depress I can buy useless things that I regret having bought them after I feel better. I think that is a compulsive behaviour that shows how empty I feel sometimes and trying to fill that emptiness by buying is not a solution at all.