Not to be a spoilsport, but how many of the amazing bargains you've rushed out to reel in on Black Fridays past ended up housing spiders in your garage? How much of what you bring home are you buying for the sake of buying? Judging by our ever-rising credit card balances and our insatiable appetite for self-storage units, I'd say it's an alarmingly high percentage.

For the rest of the reflections by Frank Sennett/Hard 7 on the Tacoma Mall shootings and consumerism, click here.

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