"If you believe that our consumer addiction represents our deepest problem - the force that keeps us from reaching out to others, from building a fair society, the force that drives so much of our environmental degradation -the Christmas nadir" (McKibben 305). Manufacturing Desire by Henry Flood, Two Cheers for Consumerism by James Twitchell and The $100 Christmas by Bill McKibben explore the ideas and necessities in life instead of the necessity for life. Due to false fulfillment people have become so over whelmed with objects and material items that they fail to enjoy what is really important in life.

People are so caught up with trying to buy material items that they spend so much time at work trying to pay for what they bought that they do not have enough time to enjoy the items that they have. Their time is not well spent...