The Story of Stuff

So most of you know I'm more or less anti-STUFF. It's not that I don't have stuff. I do. And like Annie Leonard, I like most of my stuff.

It's just that I don't feel compelled to buy stuff just because it's new or someone else has it or I think it's going to make me happy in some way. I buy things when I/we need them and/or if there is a fairly compelling reason for getting something new (like my new DVD player that streams movies from Netflix, thereby reducing my expenditure on DVDs and the a...