A Different Addiction

The addiction I'm writing about today doesn't have anything to do with exercise, food, drugs, alcohol, or sex. It's not about an addiction to a game, work, the internet, shopping or a person.
What else is there?
If you do any kind of research you will rarely, if ever, find this listed with many other addictions.
Have you guessed what it is yet?
It's an addiction to having STUFF.

This is different than shopping (though it may be related). There is a "high" that comes during the actual action for those who are shopping-addicts.
I'm talking about having things. The addiction to material goods is so prevalent that people don't even consider it an addiction- it's "human nature" to want and want and never be satisfied with our possessions. It's insatiable. We always want bigger, better, faster and newer- even if we just got the same item the week before.

I was shocked when I learned in my basic Economics class that it is basically the study of how society deals with it's limited resources and unlimited wants. I was surprised because I've tried to eliminate the scarcity mentality from my being. I thought, (with some pride to myself) "I don't have unlimited wants, I'm happy with my life the way it is." However the more I pondered it, the more I realized that this is an addiction that plagues almost everybody, including myself!

So what do we do about it?
After doing some thinking, here are a few things I've thought of. I hope you will think of more if it's important to you.

1- Admit to yourself that you have an addiction to things (there may be some of you that don't have this problem at all. To you I say, "Kudos!")
2- When you think you "need" something, identify whether it's really a need or a want.
3- When you go into a store, look at everything as just a bunch of stuff that potentially can tie you down more than it can free you.
4- See yourself as complete without a particular item.

I'm not saying that possessions are a bad thing in and of themselves. It's the supposed need for them that is damaging.

We need to feel complete without them.
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