Consumed by Consumption? Clarify by Cleaning Out!

Clutter no more: packing in the habit of outrageous consumption - Life & Style | Trends, Tips, News & Advice | The Irish Times - Wed, Jul 31, 2013: "Stuff and nonsense
Again, this isn’t all that surprising: another study found that the average American child acquires 70 new toys a year.
None of the families in the UCLA study were hoarders: they were just ordinary people who had become overwhelmed with stuff. “Mothers were very aware of the mess and clutter and [had adopted] a laugh-it-off attitude that this was going to just keep recurring,” one of the researchers, anthropology professor Jeanne E Arnold told the Washington Post. “A few were almost bitter.”
Somehow, we have become caught on a treadmill that we can’t get off. We work harder to earn more (or at least in the hope that, in a recession, we won’t earn substantially less), so that we can keep spending. Acquiring and managing our mountains of stuff takes up so much time that we have fewer resources and less energy for the things that really matter. We end up living in cluttered houses, feeling overwhelmed and unproductive, and never, ever able to find our keys."

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