Can we experience more by having less?
While Marie Kondo's book told us HOW to declutter, Stuffocation makes the urgent case for WHY. Starting with alarming accounts of how clutter and hoarding impact physically on our stress levels, the book takes a big picture look at the history of materialism: how governments, manufacturers and advertisers encourage it, and why most of us have bought into it. James Wallman argues that many of us are not only dissatisfied by our possessions, but are actually being made unhappy
