Consumerism pressure is real. I do think after you reach that point of seeing how much useless or cheap crap you own, you get really turned off by it all and hone in on what you really want and need. The last few years the air fryer has been trendy. Friends can't believe I don't have one. Family wants to buy me one as a gift. I don't want it, don't need it, and people don't understand that. I know in a few years that would be sitting on a shelf in storage and, like you, I'd be thinking about the money wasted anytime I see it. We're in a heavy consumer society.