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The cost of holding on to stuff


“When David Friedlander interviewed Mr. Hyde about his (minimalism) project, he highlighted this issue: Americans in particular like to be prepared for the worst-case-scenario, having separate cookie cutters for Christmas and Halloween. We seldom consider how negligible the consequences are when we running out of something or are unprepared. Nor do we consider how high the consequences are for being over-prepared…”

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