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Why do you have all that 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.

Image: Piles of crockery (Credit: Andrew Holt/Getty Images)

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23 minutes

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Mon 18 Apr 2022 02:06GMT

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