Stuff

Why do you have all that stuff? What drives us to get and keep so much stuff - even objects that we rarely, if ever, use? Psychologists working on cortisol levels found that living in a messy or cluttered home may correlate to higher rates of depression and that conspicuous consumption may be affecting our well-being. When does your stuff start to own you? Dessa talks with experts about how animal hoarding behaviors compare with our own, and speaks to a money-saving guru who might make you rethink your relationship to things.

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Stuff is an episode from Deeply Human by iHeartPodcasts/BBC/APM.

This episode is 27:21 long.

This episode was published on Apr 15, 2022.

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