A pdf is available by request to jmheyman@utep.edu . Consumption is a fundamental process in capitalism comparable to wage labor production. It is most usefully studied through tracking material provisioning of everyday life ("reproduction"). To do this, the methods of systematic material culture documentation, with a historical dimension, is described in detail. This enables two key inquiries: how household material technologies are introduced and transformed over time (how people become consumers of extra-local goods); and the paths by which material provisioning (material goods and supply flows) arrive at households. These goods are not just "possessed" as in typical consumption studies; they are objects of (mostly unpaid) reproductive labor, a neglected domain of activity. Households are also internally unequal and divided, and relations of power of generation and gender are linked to material culture and various kinds of labor. A fundamental concept is consumer proletarianization, in which people (or regional networks) lose control of the means of consumption (material culture provisioning) and must use cash incomes to purchase the inputs required for survival. This in turn connects to a key typological contrast with respect to household economies between flow-through households (money inputs and purchases) and flow-conserving households (peasant economies). The chapter has a large volume of detailed documentation of material culture and related economics.