2021-08-22
32 分钟Hi, Nsqers.
Steven is away this week, so we're replaying two of our favorite questions from the past.
We'll be back next week with a brand new episode for you.
In the meantime, enjoy these gems from the NSQ archive.
What you're saying is chilling to me, but it's also deeply admirable.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Stephen Dubner, and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
Why do we buy exercise equipment that we'll never use and health food that we'll never eat?
Who am I?
I'm like Beyonce.
What would Beyonce do?
She would drink the sparkling water.
Also, is Steven Dubner a hoarder?
Why can't you just call 1800?
Got junk.
Even got junk.
Doesn't want my junk.
So, Angela, I have a habit, and I suspect many other people do as well, of acquiring, often by purchase, what I've come to think of as aspirational objects, which is to say, I will buy stuff that I think I want, or maybe more accurately, that I would like to want, but which, in fact, I'll never actually use.
So, one tiny example at home, we probably have 600 boxes of quinoa in our cupboard.