Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

I already own more than any human being needs.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of s**t that I don't need, that I refuse to share with others.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

I'm not a minimalist, not at all. I feel much better, safer even, having a large piece.

I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'm an electronics hoarder - I won't throw any out. I still have my first T-Mobile Sidekick... old VCRs in my garage. It scares me that I'm going to end up being buried under electronics.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.