I read a story in the New York Times this past weekend that talked about people pursuing happiness by living with less 'stuff'. The people mentioned actually made it a point to own only 100 things. This concept fascinated me, and it makes me want to count what I own, in an effort to whittle that list down.
I have way more than 100 things. What would inflate my numbers would be media (books, CD's, DVD's and video games), shared household items (silverware) and clothing. Maybe some ground rules could be set here, because it seems ridiculous to count every CD -- maybe count 1 for every 100 CD's, or each rack of CD's as one. It also seems ridiculous to count spoons or commodity clothing, like white t-shirts. Materialistic excess would be the point and excessive hoarding of media or clothing should be marked, somehow.
The value of maintaining a list like this would be how it makes you think about new things added to your life.
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