a disenfranchised consumer
I am not sure at what point it changed for me. I used to love to go shopping, it did not matter for what it was simply the act of shopping, almost always when I went shopping I would buy something.
Now-a-days I mostly see shopping as a chore, something that needs to be done. I know my attitude toward shopping was a very gradual almost imperceptible change until one day I needed to go shopping.
It started sometime about my mid to late 40's, I guess about the time I started thinking about retirement but it was not a choice I mentally made, it was one that I kind of just grew into.
This growing into it is really interesting and I think it wrks in other areas as well. I have a post draft with a few lines on it about "acquired taste" and how the things we love today, probably had no interest to us as kids - it took work to love them. I think it also takes some work to drop past loves, to recognize the harm in them.