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''Helen goes deeper than the decluttering trends to ask why we buy and keep things. This book is full of practical wisdom!'' - Bryony Gordon, author of Mad Girl

An exploration into why we keep holding on to material things and what they mean to us

On New Year''s Eve of 2018, journalist Helen Chandler-Wilde lost everything she owned in a storage unit fire in Croydon, where she''d stowed all her possessions after a big break-up. She was left devastated, and forced to re-evaluate her relationship with owning material things.

A mix of memoir, self-help and journalism, Lost & Found explores the psychological reasons for why we buy and keep the things we do, and explains how we can liberate ourselves from the tyranny of ''too much''. Helen interviews people from all walks of life, including behavioural psychologists on the science of nostalgia, a nun on what it''s like to own almost nothing and consumer psychologists on why we spend

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      Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
      Published 1/28/2024
      ISBN-13 9781783255597
      978-1783255597
      ISBN-10 1783255595

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Helen goes deeper than the decluttering trends to ask why we buy and keep things. This book is full of practical wisdom!'' - Bryony Gordon, author of Mad Girl

      An exploration into why we keep holding on to material things and what they mean to us

      On New Year''s Eve of 2018, journalist Helen Chandler-Wilde lost everything she owned in a storage unit fire in Croydon, where she''d stowed all her possessions after a big break-up. She was left devastated, and forced to re-evaluate her relationship with owning material things.

      A mix of memoir, self-help and journalism, Lost & Found explores the psychological reasons for why we buy and keep the things we do, and explains how we can liberate ourselves from the tyranny of ''too much''. Helen interviews people from all walks of life, including behavioural psychologists on the science of nostalgia, a nun on what it''s like to own almost nothing and consumer psychologists on why we spend

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