28. Why Do We Hoard?

No Stupid Questions

社会与文化

2020-11-22

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Also: do you spend more time thinking about the past, the present, or the future?

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  • I was going to say Apple.

  • Very close. Hippopotamus.

  • I'm Angela Duckworth.

  • I'm Steven Dubner.

  • And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

  • Today on the show, is Steven Dubner a hoarder?

  • Why can't you just call 1-800-GOT-JUNK?

  • Even Got Junk doesn't want my junk.

  • Also, do you have a past, present, or future time perspective?

  • That Thanksgiving of 1989, there was never one like it.

  • Steven, question for you.

  • I want to know about your quinoa cabinet.

  • I want to know if it is still full or perhaps even overflowing.

  • And really why I'm asking is, when you said that you keep buying box after box of quinoa

  • and never cooking any of it, I had to ask myself, is Steven a hoarder?

  • So first of all, I would say I've eased off on the quinoa purchase since you talked me through it.

  • Since I shamed you about it.

  • Am I a hoarder?

  • So I would say that I don't believe I am now or have ever been what is called a severe hoarder

  • where you accumulate so many books or newspapers or cuckoo clocks.