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When the Stuff You Own Starts to Own You

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4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re all about stuff: Why so many of us have too much of it, how harmful it can be, and what you can do to get rid of it (or help a love one).

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0:39.3

This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I am joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here

0:43.4

at the Motley Fool.

0:44.4

Hello, bro.

0:45.4

Hello, Alison.

0:46.4

In this week's episode, it's just all about stuff.

0:48.8

All about the stuff.

0:49.7

And when stuff starts to own you.

0:52.8

If you're dealing with too much clutter, you're not alone, and we're

0:55.3

here with advice on how to get rid of it. All that and more on this week's episode of Molly Full

1:00.0

Answers. So, bro, what's up? Alson, I do an awful lot of reading. I was actually suspected. I

1:07.5

was trying to analyze it. Like, I think about half my job is reading. And

1:11.4

sometimes I'm reading stuff, I'm like, oh, I kind of knew that. Sometimes I pick up a new thing

1:15.7

or two. But sometimes I read something that really makes me question, frankly, like how I'm

1:20.2

living my life. And that was my experience recently with this recent article from the Atlantic

1:27.0

by Atlanta Samuels and it's entitled

1:29.4

We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things, How Online Shopping and Cheap Prices are Turning

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