These few lines I read the other day, something I always believed in…less buying, less wasting, less spending, less time on working to earn money, more time …(However now the problem is even the basic needs are becoming quite costly, right from staple food, house rent so on, some of the latest gadgets have become essential, but i guess it is a one time investment, the upgraded versions don't add much value, mostly superficial).
The second you open your wallet to buy something, it costs
you – and in more ways than you might think. Yes, of course there’s the price
tag and the corresponding amount of time it took you to earn that amount of
money, but possessions also cost you space in your home and time spent cleaning
and maintaining them. And as the token environmentalist in the room, I’d be
remiss if I didn’t remind you that when you buy something, you’re also taking
on the task of disposing of it (responsibly or not) when you’re done with it.
Our addiction to consumption is a vicious one, and it’s stressing us out.
This is why some normal adult human beings can live in
houses just 426 square feet and others find that not even their
2,500-square-foot McMansion feels big enough. It’s almost never the amount of
space that’s the problem, but the amount of stuff.
So if bigger homes aren’t the solution, what is? I suggest
heading in the exact opposite direction: deliberately choose a life with less.
Buy less and instantly you have less to store; you use less space. Eventually
you can work less to pay for all of this stuff. Soon you will stress less too
and, above all, your life will involve less waste.
(from an article titled Buying
begets buying: how stuff has consumed the average American's life by Madeleine
Somerville)
