E The Magazine For Today's Female Executive August 2018 issue

“In America, we consume twice as
many material goods as we did fifty years
ago. Over the same period, the size of the
average American home has nearly tripled,
and today that average home contains
about three hundred thousand items. On
average, our homes contain more televisions
than people. And the US Department
of Energy reports that, due to clutter, 25
percent of people with two-care garages
don’t have room to park cars inside and another
32% have room for only one vehicle.
(…) And still one out of every ten American
households rents off-site storage - the fastest-growing
segment of the commercial real
-estate industry over the past four decades.”
Joshua Becker: The More of Less
The common tendency is that we all are
hoarders. We buy, get, and own more and
more stuff day by day. We hoard clothes,
shoes, bags, drawings of our kids, postcards,
mugs, jewelry, and much more. They
take more and more space, but we don’t
want to get rid of these things for several,
mostly emotional reasons.
And this tendency also goes beyond our
homes and personal lives: we do the same
thing at work as well. Besides the hoarding
of physical goods, we also store more and
more digital information, intentionally or not:
e-mails, downloads, documents, presentations,
pictures, charts, etc., thinking they’ll
be useful “one day,” sometime in the future.
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