Make no mistake about it, the world still abounds with tons of stuff, but if we were to believe some, we might be approaching a state of “peak stuff”–a state where we have capped out our appetite for extraneous candle holders.
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One of today’s most powerful advertising mediums is Instagram. Companies give tons of free products and pay handsome sums to have their products featured in highly trafficked Instagram account feeds. Until a few days ago, 19 year old Australian Essena O’Neil was a coveted.
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Today’s post was written by mother and minimalist Jen Adams. I have 13 children. That’s not a typo–thirteen. 5 adopted, 4 biological and 4 “step”–although don’t tell them that. Our kids range in age from 5 to 23 years old..
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There is no single day that better represents the scourge of compulsive, compulsory consumption than Black Friday–historically the biggest shopping day of the year. The day compels many to camp out in front of stores in frigid temperatures to nab limited.
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Many, if not most, of our habits are influenced–if not outright dictated–by a desire to keep up with our peers. We choose the homes we do, we consume the stuff we do, we have the careers we do and make.
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The good folks over at GOOD Magazine made this handy flowchart that provides various questions to ask oneself before buying something. It’s decidedly more polished and complex than the one we did a couple years ago–though that’s probably the point. Answering the Byzantine circuit.
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Many of us have a very conflicted relationship with our stuff. On the one hand, we want a lot less of it and think the world in general could use a major ‘edit’ in order to save planet and collective.
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In his 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation,” American psychologist Abraham Maslow outlined a hierarchal structure for what motivates human behavior. Though many have greatly expanded his theory, it has remained popular because of its intuitive logic. Here’s how how he.
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Except if you live in the smallest of homes, most our stuff gets dispersed and concealed by space. We don’t get the full scope of how much stuff we have until it’s all together in a small area, e.g. in.
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From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, there’s a certain logic to being materialistic. In the olden days, folks couldn’t just run to Target and pick up a hypo-allergenic full-sized duvet. You had a few shots a year to hunt and skin.
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