b) I'm not about to hang out with the thousands of other people clammoring for the last box of whatever at the electronics store or wherever

The last 2 years I went to stores in the more rural areas. Same stuff for sale, but there are less people. I don't arrive at 6AM either and still get my stuff.

As for over-consumption of goods, I am probably most guilty of this. If having 7 DVD players and 6 cordless phones in a 1 bedroom apartment is wrong, I don't want to be right.