The Way People Dispose Their Unnecessary Items

"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value."-Thomas Paine

Ernest Holmes addresses a trepidation we may have when giving: our resources will be temporarily depleted. It is common sense that the more we give, the less we have; but there is a principle at work which defies common sense, because the appearance of loss and lack is deceptive. Once we have sown a seed our hands are empty, but the soil is full and soon we will have our hands full with the harvest of that seed. If we had held onto that seed, there would be no harvest and we would eventually be empty-handed. However, giving in a principled manner does not incur a loss, but gains. Giving, as a matter of principle, is the difference between gaining more or having less. Of course, if we go through the motions of giving — appearing to give, but actually throwing money away in an unprincipled manner, then we have simply wasted our time, and our treasure. Not every seed sown, grows; some fall on hard, stony ground and never take root. Not every prayer is heard and answered; some fall on deaf ears — our own. Having ears, we hear not. Having eyes, we see not. And having our hands full, we give not. It is a shame, because we could give, have and enjoy more.

People hold on to pieces of jewelry, furniture, and other symbolic collectables that is passed through generations. These things can remind a person of a loved one that is seen as being priceless.

When a hoarder opens their front door, one will first notice the smell of feces, molds, and a musky smell in the air. Upon walking into the hoarder living room, the clutter filled the entire room from the ceiling to the floor except for a pathway leading to every room in the house. Next, one walked to the bedroom where one can see tons of garbage bags filled with clothes, tons of boxes, and suitcases filled with clothes also. Then, followed the pathway to the kitchen, where the smell of rotten foods and molds filled the air. One will notice the piles of garbage, cluttered furniture, and structural damages to the walls and floor. Finally the journey comes to an end when one reaches the bathroom. In the bathroom, one will smell feces, molds,

Conspicuous consumption leads to the devaluing of rubbish through replacing old with new, but it also ties in nicely with Thompson's 'rubbish theory'. Antiques and collectables are viewed with higher status as they move from 'transient' to 'durables' and their value increases. Thompson explains how rubbish is a transforming process, and is in itself a changing concept. He explains that sociologically, rubbish can be revalued, with reference to 'aesthetic revaluation' (Brown, 2009, p130) and 'eccentric' revaluations' (Brown, 2009, p126). Thompson's notion of zero-value is elastic, but explains how valuing rubbish changes over time, and how something with no value now, could potentially have greater

Our world has reached a period in which there is a constant cycle of new inventions and products being produced.Although that situation may not be bad for some aspects of life, it is a very important factor that potentially determines our materialistic behavior. According to John Galbraith, our society has been invaded by the “dependence effect”. He states that “the process by which wants are satisfied is als the process by which wants are created”. Because we have access to so many options of new technology and new goods and services, buying one single thing just is not enough anymore. A person may buy the newest smartphone available on the market, but in a couple month a newer, more advanced model has already come out. Furthermore, while he makes the purchase of the phone a smartwatch could catch his eye. Although the phone is fulfilling the need of calling or texting, the watch could fulfill the need to tell time. It should not be considered greedy if the person decides to purchase that “newer phone” in a couple of month or the smartwatch with the phone, it is their choice to buy the newer products that has new features that could ultimately make life a lot easier. However, that person’s choice of purchase initiates the process of the dependence effect once more. Since that void of needing a cellphone is out of the way, a new need or desire will surface in its

Humans love to buy things, myself included. We love to buy things so much that it has almost become something that we do subconsciously. When we see something that looks appealing we have to have it. Despite whether or not it’s really necessary to our day to day life does not matter to the average first world citizen. The word “consumer” is defined as a person who purchases goods and services for personal use. Much of what we consume ultimately ends up in a landfill, storage or at the bottom of our closet. This has become such a major issue because we are being so wasteful and careless. Our necessity for “things” has become so extreme and it is almost a competition between people. Everyone wants the latest phone or style of shoe, it has almost become as if we can no longer survive without it, or at least cannot function properly without it.

We all know we live in a highly materialistic culture in which conspicuous consumption governs much of our lives. We strive to acquire goods which will define us to ourselves and to others and somehow satisfy our human need to justify existence. At the end of the day, we also all know that there’s a trap built into the system: the more you consume, the more you are pressed to consume more because whatever satisfaction possession of things brings us is always fleeting thus driving us further and further down the material path of life seeking nirvana around the next corner at the mall.

So cheap, so convenient, and so comforting – qualities so alluring, it is easy to disregard

Value at the store is a big difference from the value of a person’s life, because one has a price tag like a dollar. The other is a person’s life of what they have done, and what they have accomplished, or what they are valuable for. An insect should have the same value as a lion, because if an ant is killed nobody cares, but in some places if a lion gets killed there are fines for that. On Earth the most important value is a human life, but some people take that for granet, and murder people like there value is nothing.

Hoarding patients has a high rate of co-occurrence with the disorder performing an assessment is highly recommending. Professionals would want to rule out or see if there are attributable of any other medical conditions such as dementia, traumatic brain injury or alcoholism. Individuals that are diagnose with hoarding disorder needs therapy to assist with the disorder. It is important that social worker perform good assessment to provide the appropriate intervention. Hoarding disorder has many health risk that affect or incapacitate a person life and impair their functioning. There are many types of treatment for the hoarding disorder.

There are many reasons behind the act of hoarding. People become hoarders because they believe that a specific item will be useful, meaningful, or valuable to them in the future, because it has sentimental value, or because the item was purchased at too big a bargain to simply just throw away. Hoarders also see items as a sign that will recall their memory of an important event or person from the past and without it they will no longer be able to remember it. Other powerful anxiety driven motivations for hoarding include: altered beliefs about the importance of possessions, excessive emotional attachments to inanimate objects, the fear of making wrong decisions, as well as worrying about be wasteful. The need to hoard is related to other psychological

Ineligible item(s) submitted via an application and/or a policy change request should not be issued with the policy nor added to a policy’s schedule. In these situations, underwriting will provide the customer a declination letter communicating the refusal to accept coverage of a particular item(s). However, the customer will have coverage during the look-see period until the specific date listed in the declination letter.

There is an inherent collecting of gifts; gifts that rack up and need to be repaid in some way, shape or form.

value in giving than there is in receiving. I believe what makes a person more inclined to give a