Welcome to Prime Day, when thousands of product thumbnails blur together to form a giant pile of garbage | Anna Spargo-Ryan

I love a sale - but scrolling the list of Amazon's deals is overwhelming to the point of delirium

I'm a simple girl. My idea of fun is an annual event in which people are crushed in pursuit of half-price Christmas decorations. But those days have passed. Welcome to the era of the always-on sale.

If you're into capitalist nightmares, you might like EOFY sales, Oh No We Forgot EOFY sales, SOFY sales, Father's Day sales, AFL grand final sales, and my boss doesn't want me to send this email" sales. Then we go headlong into Australia's Black Friday sales, which start around the beginning of November and last until January, as is tradition (though not ours).