I Shop, Therefore I Am

“If everyday life in the first few years of the twenty-first century has been characterized by anything, it is the American family’s willingness to work hard and shop hard, purchasing one well-marketed new product after another and taking on debt in a vigorous show of consumerism.”

From Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors, a new book by UCLA anthropologists who, as Time reports, "went into 32 typical homes — middle-class, dual-income families, with school-age children — and cataloged what they saw." The study also suggested that our inability to keep all our stuff cleaned, working, and organized increases our stress level.

 

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