Keep you 3D glasses and Make Your Own Trends

After seeing Avatar, I made the mistake of recycling my 3D glasses.  When I went to another 3D movie I had to buy them all over again.  Now I keep them and re-use for the next flick.  Of course I have to remember to bring them along, but so far it has worked out well.  I resent having to pay $3 for the junky glasses.  I don't even like 3D.  Most of the time the picture is just dark and harder to watch.  If the story isn't any good, the 3D doesn't make it any better. I have noticed that much of life is a passing fad.  You can't buy into all these things.  Who can afford all of it?  If my TV hadn't broken I would not have bought a flat screen.  My life would not have been any worse.  I see all the first run movies, so I don't have HBO.  I listen to TV more than I watch it.  I am usually doing something else and the TV serves as background noise.  I think that a lot of these trends are just nonsense.  For years the showiest car to buy was a Mercedes Benz, now it seems to be an Audi.  Who cares?   Shouldn't we be buying the best, safest, most fuel efficient car  we can buy.  I don't care what people think.  I don't care what marketers think I'm supposed to have.  I don't want a fountain pen, thank you very much.  The only time I  buy something like that is at a yard sale so I can re-sell  it on eBay.  I can't believe so many people are hypnotized by this nonsense.  Cheapness always protected me from this sort of thing and I'm happy it did.  I prefer to set my own trends and make my own fashion.  It feels more authentic to me.  Years ago I was buying rhinestone pins and wearing them.  People thought they were cool.  My only regret is that I didn't buy more of them.  I was paying less than10 bucks, now they go for a lot more and I can't afford them anymore because the trend has caught up to me.  Make yourown trend, let the market catch up to you, don't chase trends and chase the market.