Stuff addict
When my husband and I moved a few months we were told we moved over 14000 lbs of stuff. Not only was this 4000 lbs more than we were quoted, but we had already moved 2 van loads of stuff and over 3 van loads that were brought to Salvation Army. We even had to rent a bigger house to keep all the stuff in.
We are determined to reduce our stuff. We are in the process of selling off more stuff and trying to be mindful of what we bring in. Our main goal in our stuff reduction is to have a smaller home so we can pay less rent, but our end result should make us more conscious of what we buy and save us some money in what we
So watch out Craig’s list here we come. Watch out bank account you’re about to grow. Watch out advertising world, we’re teaching our kids, and ourself about how to look through marketing to see what we really need.
Here’s an online movie of the Story of stuff http://www.storyofstuff.com/. It is very biased on being over consumers; however, it does have some good views that make you go Hummmm on our over consumption.