This was my response on his article:
“Seems to me that part of the problem with stuff is that we are very short-sighted in the acquisition phase. Just think: if while you stood in the store with object in hand, what flashed across your mind immediately after, “hey, cool!” was a detailed movie of how that item was going to quickly fall out of favor in your life of new things, and then how much energy it sucked up sitting around your place collecting dust, and then the hassle of finally coming to the decision that you have too much stuff and then having to take the time and energy to do a big space purge and pack stuff off to the thrift store… the real cost of the item in terms of your time and energy would be evident.

Then the question becomes, what’s more important: my life or this thing?”

beware of anything you find yourself describing as “perfectly good”

and

What I didn’t understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn’t the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it.

beware of anything you find yourself describing as “perfectly good”

and

What I didn’t understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn’t the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it.