Cheap Items Leave Couples Divided in the War Over Household Clutter

WSJ Your Money Briefing

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Cheap items bought online are putting couples at odds over what to get rid of and the money being spent. Wall Street Journal reporter Dalvin Brown joins host Derricke Dennis to talk about all the stuff that’s been piling up at home, the financial impact, and how some are resorting to purging the clutter in secret. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.8	£8,000 for education and training at Amazon. Eligibility conditions apply. Here's your money
0:33.8	briefing for Monday, May 19th. I'm Derek Dennis for the Wall Street Journal.
0:43.3	Couples are at a breaking point over cheap and easy purchases and the piles of household clutter that come with it.
0:51.3	Add to that, the overall cost of keeping it all.
0:55.5	Americans are cutting back, trying to save money, so you're not having as many people
1:00.1	going out and paying for storage units. So what does that mean for all that stuff? It means that
1:04.5	it's in your home or that people are storing it in their homes and garages.
1:08.6	We talked to Wall Street Journal reporter, Dal Dalvin Brown about the kinds of things people are
1:13.3	buying and the tough negotiation or even secret purging it sometimes takes to get rid of it.
1:20.4	That's after the break.
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2:13.9	Call it War of the Roses, but many couples are fighting themselves at odds over stuff, lots of stuff,
2:20.6	bought impulsively or cheaply in recent years, and it's all piling up.
2:25.4	Wall Street Journal reporter Dalvin Brown joins me with a look at the clutter, the contentious
2:29.9	time some couples are having, and how they're meeting in the middle.
2:34.0	Dalvin, were we all just bored with too much disposable income, leading us to some couples are having and how they're meeting in the middle.
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