Catholic Consumerism How Far is Too Far?

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Catholic day planners? Sheesh.
I never heard of any such fashionable Catholic “gear” but I am not in any such group. I’d just laugh it off. There always seems to be some “one upmanship” in such groups, whether its Catholic stuff or not.
 
Catholic “blindbag” type of toys. Now there’s a gimmick my children would be powerless against and my inner minimalist would rage against. Atleast it would be Catholic plastic junk the grandmas would be sweettalked into buying.
 
I had to hunt a bit for the right Catholic pocket calendar - I wanted all the Holy Days of Obligation and Feast Days listed.
 
Limoncello4021 said:
Catholic day planners? Sheesh.
I never heard of any such fashionable Catholic “gear” but I am not in any such group. I’d just laugh it off. There always seems to be some “one upmanship” in such groups, whether its Catholic stuff or not.
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Day planners was the only thing I could think of at that moment, but there is a lot of stuff out there that is “cute” and IMO overpriced.

If dayplanners really bring them joy and that’s where they want to drop their cash, I shouldn’t be so judgey.I know many like seeing the feast days already printed.

I’m not the target market for that. I notoriously don’t fill in planners. Even when I was teaching and needed them for pIanning I used free ones.
 
Do you know what I think is too far?
Have you ever looked at the prices for bishops’ croziers?

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on_the_hill said:
Have you ever looked at the prices for bishops’ croziers?

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Googles it
I have now!

I think the priest at my college parish who became a bishop made his own out of something sentimental, but I should verify that…back to Google.
 
I had to look up what on earth a day planner is. Since I read your initial post, I thought it was a person that plans your day, like a wedding planner, but for mundane everyday things and part of the job is to make sure you are being productive.
 
I didn’t know what a day planner was either. I think they call them agendas here and I could buy one for a few dollars, so when I heard it was 60 bucks I got confused.
 
Yeah, that is why I thought it was a service offered by another human being, not a book with blank pages.
 
redbetta said:
I thought it was a person that plans your day, like a wedding planner, but for mundane everyday things and part of the job is to make sure you are being productive.
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:laughing:If that’s what it was, the socioeconomic divide between me and these new friends just widened into a massive canyon.
 
I agree thar the day planner is expensive. I bought one for the 2016 to 2017. It is pretty’ but also very big and heavy. I cannot bring it everywhere, just ly it on the desk. What is the point of writing down your grocery list thre if it is not compact enough to be brought to the grocery?

I would say that particular planner does good marketing. Right now it sells for i think 58 or 60 dollars. Catholic women are still buying it
 
Because we are old school. I’ve used a day planner, Daytimers, for years. I never do anything on my cell phone except calls and texts. Shocking, I know.
 
redbetta said:
Why do people still use planners when smartphones exist?
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I don’t want the batteries on my grocery list to die, but I’m more of a write on the back of some trash or junkmail type of listmaker.

I do think, for people with more reliable habits than me, planners are the same kind of exciting that new school supplies are for so many of us. I was always outrageously excited to write with a fresh pen on the first page of a notebook.
 
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