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"Anyone a minimalist or aspiring to be on here? We are driven to overeat because our evolutionary biology tells us to prepare for times of scarce food, and are now in an obesity epidemic. In the same way, we are also suddenly drowning in stuff. Clutter. An insane amount of possessions. "A team of anthropologists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have decided, after one of the most extensive pieces of research into contemporary life ever conducted, that we are living in "the most materially rich society in global history, with light-years more possessions per average family than any preceding society". We are now living in an age of abundance in the West. Before, material goods were expensive and scarce. Clothes were so hard to come by that they were handed down from generation to generation. A historian called Eve Fisher has calculated that before 1750 and the onset of the industrial revolution a shirt would have cost around £2,000 in today's money. But now, things - shirts, shoes, toys and a million other consumer items - are cheap. Once again, our inbuilt impulses have yet to catch up. As a result, many millions of us are filling our homes and lives, and suffocating under too much stuff." [Taken from Viewpoint: The hazards of too much stuff; an article on the BBC website] And cluttered homes have been linked with an increase in cortisol, the stress hormone. Our stuff is directly affecting our mental health. I'm trying to minimise our "stuff" but it's hard to do! Anyone else on the s journey? " . I keep everything and reuse lots of things, there's no doubt I'm keeping things that I'll probably never use. My wife likes clothes, she keeps all the clothes she's ever bought, we agree about keeping stuff but disagree on the stuff we should keep. Obviously being a green,I would say buying something worthwhile is better than buying a lot of things regularly that your only going to throw away next year. | |||
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"Minimalism has it's place. ... I don't like clutter but then I don't like emptiness either." I'm with u there! Im almost minimalist but not quite, when u look in the cupboard it all falls out! Lol   | |||
"Anyone a minimalist or aspiring to be on here? We are driven to overeat because our evolutionary biology tells us to prepare for times of scarce food, and are now in an obesity epidemic. In the same way, we are also suddenly drowning in stuff. Clutter. An insane amount of possessions. "A team of anthropologists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have decided, after one of the most extensive pieces of research into contemporary life ever conducted, that we are living in "the most materially rich society in global history, with light-years more possessions per average family than any preceding society". We are now living in an age of abundance in the West. Before, material goods were expensive and scarce. Clothes were so hard to come by that they were handed down from generation to generation. A historian called Eve Fisher has calculated that before 1750 and the onset of the industrial revolution a shirt would have cost around £2,000 in today's money. But now, things - shirts, shoes, toys and a million other consumer items - are cheap. Once again, our inbuilt impulses have yet to catch up. As a result, many millions of us are filling our homes and lives, and suffocating under too much stuff." [Taken from Viewpoint: The hazards of too much stuff; an article on the BBC website] And cluttered homes have been linked with an increase in cortisol, the stress hormone. Our stuff is directly affecting our mental health. I'm trying to minimise our "stuff" but it's hard to do! Anyone else on the same journey? " That said I suspect, poverty, low life expectancy, disease, unremitting toil, mono diets, cold, dark, lack of sanitation, et al, might have affected stress levels a whole lot more than thinking of cancelling your Sky subscription | |||
