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Photographer Lisl Steiner On Letting Go Of The Past

Bonni Brodnick | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Material Possessions, Mindfulness, Spring Cleaning Tips, Storage Wars, Simplicity, Stuff, Lifestyle Changes, Salvation Army, Fifty News
Bonni Brodnick

A wise octogenarian once said, "Don't be possessed by your possessions." Actually she said it last weekend, when she invited me to her new "stuff shop," a spot she had rented for a month to try to make a dent in the dispersal of her long-collected ephemera.

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Stuff We Don't Need: What's The Point?

Debra Ollivier | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Hoarders, Storage Wars, Holiday Shopping, Hoarding, Shopping, Stuff, Economy, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

Between gifts and post-holiday blow-out sales, the list of stuff we really, truly don't need will burgeon. And even though we can live without half of it (if not way more), it seems there's something about stuff--sheer stuff -- that rivets us.

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Best of TEDTalks 2011, #12: Less Stuff, More Happiness

Graham Hill | Posted 12.09.2011

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Graham Hill

We are showing people that we can have everything we need, and that our lives and planet will be happier, healthier and more beautiful using less stuff and space.2011-12-09-tedtredtedtedted.jpg

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Graham Hill: Less Stuff, More Happiness

Posted 12.09.2011

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Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff As 'Art'

Red Room | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Art, Stuff, Redroom, Dumbo Arts Festival, Mac Premo, Arts News
Red Room

A dumpster filled with 457 items was recently exhibited in Manhattan's Dumbo Arts Festival. It is the work of collage artist Mac Premo and he says the dumpster-art is "a portrait of a life."

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Send Your Orphan Heirlooms Home

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Photos, History, Inheritance, Detective, Genealogy, Immigrants, Irish, Family History, Stuff, Heirloom, Diary, Entertainment News
Megan Smolenyak

About a decade ago, I accidentally launched into a sub-hobby of genealogy - one I refer to as orphan heirloom rescues. The idea is to return items to descendants of their original owners.

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Stuffing It

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Travel, Moving, Stuff, The Balanced Life, Decluttering, Declutter, Getting Rid of Stuff, Healthy Living News
W. Hunter Roberts

When you sort everything you own in nine days, you see clearly what's important to you.

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Getting Rid of Stuff

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: De-Clutter, Stuff, Clutter, The Balanced Life, Too Much Stuff, Decluttering, Declutter, Getting Rid of Stuff, Healthy Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

What do we do when "stuff" happens? Do we stuff our stuff? Do we stay conscious about it? Do we wallow in it? Does stuff run us? Or do we run stuff?

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Excellence in Higher Education: A Proud And Meaningless Tradition

Riley Waggaman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The University in Ruins, Twitter, Spring Break, College, Wheaton College, Scott Brown, American Higher Education, Taxachusetts, Higher Education, Bill Readings, Stuff, Learning, College Tour, Excellence, Academic Excellence, Excellence in Higher Education, College News
Riley Waggaman

In these modern, consumer-savvy times hardly a day goes by without an inquisitive prospective student asking a college tour guide, "The facilities her...

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When Hackers Took My Video Viral

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Houses, Bernays, Overconsumption, Green News, Story of Stuff, Embodied Energy, Planned Obsolescence, Climate Change, Faircompanies, Consumption, Tiny Houses, Stuff, Products, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

On tiny homes, happiness, Freud's nephew, the 'Story of Stuff,' and why massive change will only come about when people realize their lives are better for making a change.

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