Stuff & Consumption

Things can solve real needs or express identity. They can also create storage, maintenance, debt, and disposal work.

The shelf price rarely includes attention cost, space cost, future disposal, or the pressure to keep upgrading.

Common examples: Fast fashion, Impulse buys, Subscriptions, Unused digital libraries.

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These scores are directional estimates based on transparent assumptions. They are not exact scientific measurements.

Evidence notes

  • Clutter, overconsumption, and wellbeing

    Excess possessions can add maintenance, storage, financial, and attention costs.

    The evidence is less settled than for sleep or exercise, but clutter is a useful signal of hidden carrying costs.

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