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It's interesting given how common it is to buy stuff that ends up demanding your attention ("your stuff starts to own you"). Like I know people who accumulate media (books, magazines, netflix lists) that they have to catch up on, when it can be feel better just to let it go and spend quiet time doing nothing.

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I have decided that's part of a natural cycle. When you're young, you don't have money and you don't have stuff. You have yet to acquire transportation, furniture, dishes, etc because you can't afford it. So you keep things & accumulate.

Eventually, you have everything you need and you have to break out of that "keep everything" mentality because it's no longer appropriate.

That's interesting, we're programmed to be hoarders kind of like how we're programmed to store fat because storing up calories used to be a big concern before modern times.

Plus all the time stuff costs when you're not even using it. You also need to organise those books, move house with them, find space for them, maybe sell or give away some you don't want. They might get stolen, do you need insurance for them? That shelf takes more time to dust...

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