Quote of the Day: Jessica Helfand, On "Things"
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA 
on 12. 4.07
In an age characterized by elevated environmental awareness -- reducing our carbon footprint, enhancing our sustainable output -- we remain nevertheless obsessed with our attachment to the material world. By all indications, our responses to things tell us who we are, what we value, why we do (or don't do) the things we do. Material culture is social culture, and social culture is intrinsically connected to making -- and yes, to saving things. You can choose to reject nostalgia, or to embrace market research, or even sell all your belongings on eBay and join a monastery, but at the end of the day, everyone has a story to tell. And a good many of those stories, it turns out, involve actual things.
-- Jessica Helfand, in ::Design Observer via ::Core77
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I have been letting go of a lot of things (donating books, freecycling outgrown kid and other stuff), which takes a lot of time. This means that even while wanting to have fewer posessions, I am still spending a lot of time dealing with them. My time is controlled by things I don't even want.
It would be better to be very selective about the things I bring into my life.
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