Looking for a Balance

I just came back from tucson and I saw how houndreds of people were putting lots of money into the economic system. I consider that is impresive how people in the united states are constantly buying things; malls are always full of people buying and they can spend hours and hours doing it; the level of consumerism is very high.

Now, I have a question. Is it good? is it good to be always buying unnecessary things? Here I find a dilema, because if people is constantly buying, is introducing money into the system. In the other hand, we should save our money to buy what we can pay. So, what should we do? I think that we must have an equilibrium between a high level of consumerism and a super high level of saving money.

I think that the extreme side of the equillibrium of consumerism it would be when someone who doesn't have enough money to buy unncesessary things and borrows money from the bank to buy those things, and the other extreme side of the equilibrium of saving money would be when someone who has enough money to buy the necessary things, doesn't buy those things.

In general, I consider that we sould have a balance in every aspect of our lives so we can enjoy everything that is being present in our daily life.