Tag: happiness project

The author, inspired by Gretchen Rubin’s “The Happiness Project,” began declining free items to combat clutter. They realized accepting freebies often leads to unnecessary possessions that are difficult to discard, due to the endowment effect – the tendency to value things more simply because we own them. While there’s nothing wrong with accepting genuinely needed free items, the author advocates against accumulating extraneous junk to create a more organized and potentially financially beneficial life.