A "consuming" style of living dat involves spending significant time and resources while partaking of da various "sights 'n' delights" at one or more small multi-store shopping malls. Considered to be just a "basic and bare-bones" existence by today's advertising-jaded youth.
A classic "grim grins" example of "minimallist living", from an old late-'80's-era "teenagers and their parents" type comic strip:
Exasperated father, speaking on the telephone: "Look --- will you quit bugging us?! I already told you --- Junior is grounded until he gets his grades back up, and so he CAN'T GO TO THE MALL TODAY!"
Mother: "Oh, honey --- you shouldn't talk to our son's friends that way! It's only natural that they'd miss seeing him at the mall!"
Exasperated father: "Our son's friends?! That was the MALL MANAGER on the phone!"
Exasperated father, speaking on the telephone: "Look --- will you quit bugging us?! I already told you --- Junior is grounded until he gets his grades back up, and so he CAN'T GO TO THE MALL TODAY!"
Mother: "Oh, honey --- you shouldn't talk to our son's friends that way! It's only natural that they'd miss seeing him at the mall!"
Exasperated father: "Our son's friends?! That was the MALL MANAGER on the phone!"
by QuacksO February 18, 2025