The unwanteds book 66/7/2023 ![]() ![]() In my apartment, it’s got so cluttered that sometimes, when I leave-usually to acquire more stuff-it crosses my mind that I should leave a “Dear Burglar” note, urging the intruder to help herself.Ī few months ago, I decided to deaccession an assortment of my things by whatever means feasible: selling, donating, recycling, giving them away, losing them on the subway, or reserving a spot for them on the next Mars Explorer. The son of a friend, when offered his pick of items from his grandfather’s estate-an antique clock? an Emmy?-took a toilet plunger. What to do with this First World surplus? Your children don’t want it. They have to dust it.” A survey conducted by the storage marketplace Neighbor found that quasi-house arrest has made seventy-eight per cent of respondents realize that they have more possessions than they need. “People are stuck in their houses and sick of their stuff,” Randy Sabin, who runs estate and Internet sales, told me over the phone from Morris, Connecticut. ![]() Lately, I, a maximalist, have been yearning to be a minimalist. ![]()
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