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The road to bankruptcy is paved with good deals. The answer to spending less is not coupons or blow-out sales. Shop less. That's it. Yes, it is wise to negotiate the price of things. Take advantage of coupons and deep discounts when they makes sense. But if you want to save money and improve your finances, shop less.
Too Much Stuff: Americans and Their Storage Units
Too Much Stuff: Americans and Their Storage Units
Too Much Stuff: Americans and Their Storage Units
The excesses of the American dream fill 50,000 storage facilities across the country. This material overflow results from crisis, indecision, laziness and selective forgetfulness.
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Too Much Stuff: Americans and Their Storage Units
Americans Buy More Stuff They Don't Need
Christmas sweaters and dad jeans aren't just offensive out of principle - they can pose a serious threat to the environment.
Innocuous as they might seem when compared with plastic shopping bags or Styrofoam cups, clothing and textiles become garbage just like everything else when thrown away - and given our country's shopping crazed culture, discarded clothing is clogging up landfills at an alarming rate.
Americans Buy More Stuff They Don't Need
The World Is Richer, Fatter, and Not Much Happier
Americans Buy More Stuff They Don't Need
$1.2 trillion: How much Americans spend annually on goods and services they absolutely don't need.
The World Is Richer, Fatter, and Not Much Happier
The World Is Richer, Fatter, and Not Much Happier
The World Is Richer, Fatter, and Not Much Happier
Not only will hundreds of millions of people in the developing world enter the consumer society in the near future, but the per capita consumption levels of those who are already in it continue to surge as automobiles and houses get larger and as new gadgets proliferate.
Do Americans Consume Too Much?
The World Is Richer, Fatter, and Not Much Happier
The World Is Richer, Fatter, and Not Much Happier
Since World War II, Americans have been engaged in a spending binge unprecedented in history. We now spend nearly two-thirds of our $11 trillion economy on consumer goods. For example, we spend more on shoes, jewelry, and watches ($100 billion) than on higher education ($99 billion).
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The access economy is helping create a world where everyone has access to sustainable and eco-friendly products. We believe that small changes can make a big impact.
Values
The access economy values sustainability and community. It’s committed to reducing the global carbon footprint and promotes sustainable practices in all aspects of our lives.
Thoughts
Every year our current system makes an exorbitant amount of stuff which inevitably creates billions of pounds of excess unsold inventory, and for things like apparel, we often burn it. It’s creating more than 5 billions pounds of waste per year in the U.S. and over 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. That’s equivalent to all of the trash produced by 5 million Americans a year — and it’s only growing.
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