What We Can Do Without

People have replaced personal experience and hands on knowledge (ie, learn by doing) with store bought solutions to everyday living. Corporations create perceived need where there isn't any. It leads to the constant 'new and improved' products that continually bombard the media.
Most people have no idea how few cleaners and cleaning paraphenalia they actually need. There are two things that can discipline you along this line. One is learning what is actually in all those cleaners (-they shouldn't even be called cleaners. they are actually polluters, contaminating your home instead of cleaning it).
The other thing that can limit the accumulation of cleaners and supplies is a lack of income. If you don't have it to spend, you don't 'spend it to have'.
When I was layed off I had to go into a conservative money mode. It was the best teacher to learn what I actually do need and what can easily be lived without- like, for example, most cleaners. I clean my house, automobile and (even) myself with very few things. This is good knowledge! It isn't the knowledge corporations want you to have. That alone should make people stand up and pay attention.