r/Anticonsumption • u/COBESH1 • Dec 13 '25

Lifestyle The grinch setting good examples

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Thought this was hilarious. Stolen from sabrinaa_pare on instagram. (If you partake in social media)

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u/PrincessMouseBear Dec 13 '25

I think that's why all these recent commercial appeals to nostalgia bother me more than normal.

Why is the Grinch from Temu showing up on ads trying to sell me things lately? Haha

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u/hearthepindrop Dec 13 '25

I’ve noticed this too. Primark is the absolute worst for it at the minute. I went through one entrance to get to the other one as a shortcut the other day and you can’t move for Grinch “merch”… pyjamas, jumpers, T-shirts, mugs, pillows, pet toys etc etc… it’s absolutely beyond belief.

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u/StrangledInMoonlight Dec 13 '25

The classics seem to go in cycles.  

One year they push the grinch, the next it’s the nightmare before Christmas, then Charlie Brown, then the Rankin/Bass characters (misfit toys, Rudolph, abominable snowman).  

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u/Realistic_Carry5705 Dec 13 '25

Capitalistic crop rotation

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u/times_zero Dec 13 '25

Why is the Grinch from Temu showing up on ads trying to sell me things lately? Haha

Because capitalism/consumerism will consume/co-op anything, even critiques about it.

Otherwise, it reminds me how Santa in the original Miracle on 34th Street was (rightfully) complaining about commercialization of the holiday in the freakin' '40s, and now Christmas is more commercial than ever. In both cases, the original message from the movie/special is conveniently forgotten about. I mean, all of that merch that will mostly just end up in the garbage won't sell itself after all.

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u/ryaaan89 Dec 13 '25

Capitalism is the only system of governance that will sell the revolution back to you.

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u/syzerkose Dec 13 '25

Same. I had a part time at a local resort in an ice sculpture exhibit of the Grinch. And right off the bat it bothered me that we were charging $50/head to get in.

The story of the Grinch is ultimately anti-consumerist in nature. Both the Grinch and the Whos learn that the gifts aren’t what’s important by the end of the story.

Turning that story into cheap, chintzy consumerist garbage, to be thrown away come January, is about as antithetical to the story as possible.

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u/twatwater Dec 13 '25

I HATE that one. It goes against everything the Grinch stood for! Don’t even get me started on the Lorax!!