I have been asking myself “why do I continue collected all this stuff?” while barely using most of it. A lot of it is junk that I don’t need. There are many possible reasons: I wanted something new, it made me feel good, I thought I needed it, I did not have any barriers to acquiring it like lack of money or lack of space, I was trying to get happy, it is fun, competing with the Jonses, I “needed” to upgrade, status, boredom, trying to fill what is missing, I was trying to solve a problem I thought I had…
I have noticed that my family acquires things incrementally like the frog being boiled in the pot. We don’t buy it all at once. It just collects over time.
I also think there is something inherent in us to fill our spaces like when we buy a bigger house we tend to fill it with more stuff.
What do I need to change so that I stop collecting all this stuff? It is easy to avoid it when I am paying attention but it is hard to always be out in front of my subconscious decisions and justifications