The other thing I think it does is stop a person from calling hoarding by the wrong name of “frugality” and substitutes the creating of a beautiful life with the filling of an empty one – with junky stuff that make you feel like you “deserve” or can find virtue in ugliness.

Do we think money buys style? Labels mark the items that will stamp the owner with social status? Or that a “good deal” means purchasing an item is virtuous somehow?

Whatever it is, shopping sensually solves the problem. Thanks for this post.