Do you suck the joy out of everything? Your hand knitted, lentil weaving, worthy lifestyle sounds like a bundle of laughs. Perhaps, along the way could could have learned some grammar.
"might follow one of the national cycle routes, they have zero advertising behind them BTW."
The trans Pennine trail passes through our village. It is advertised all over the place.
I avoid advertising where I can because I find it annoying. I have adblocker on my laptop and record everything on commercial TV so I can zap through the adverts, but I am not so high and mighty that I can say that I am totally immune to advertising.
We also go on holiday to places where we can avoid the crowds, but that is because we don't like noisy, crowded places. We avoid all inclusive/kids clubs/evening entertainment destinations because they don't rock our boat, not because we think we are better than the masses, which you clearly do.
We don't all have independent organic shops on our doorstep either. I buy cars that have a good reputation for reliability, not as status symbols (only twats do that). We buy electrical goods for the same reasons.
I have never seen a completely own label, unbranded car, and even electrical goods are branded as are mobile phones. OH and DD own Samsung phones because they are good not because they have succumbed to advertising. OH is a techy geek and does a lot of research before buying modern technology.
Oh, and I work in the office supplies industry and can confirm that the own brand/unlabelled products that we sell are of a much poorer quality than the branded items. They are own brand/unbranded to meet price points.
Stop being so smug and superior.