Chinese families' worldly goods in Huang Qinqjun's pictures

Anyway, they had a meat dinner for us as special guests but otherwise mostly had a vegetarian diet because meat was very expensive. Nonetheless, the TV was critical for both information and entertainment. They also had cell phones.

Conclusion: information ranks right up there with food and shelter.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0871564378

Great to get perspective and reset once in a while.

I'm keen to read on my e-reader or tablet, and simplify the things around us. My wife loves the look of books on shelves, "like a library". Instead of converting old CDs and then storing them away, we have shelves of CDs that never get touched. Can't win every one of those tame disputes.

It would annoy me greatly to own more things than I could keep track of or haven't used/looked at in the past 12 months.