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2


         : Mary MacVean, For many people, gathering possessions is just the stuff of life, Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2014.




3


   ,          .       : Jamie Ducharme, A lot of Americans are more anxious than they were last year, a new poll says, Time, May 8, 2018.




4


       : Louis DeNicola, How many credit cards does the average American have? Credit Karma, October 6, 2020.




5


        : Jessica Dickler, US households now have over $16,000 in credit-card debt, CNBC, December 13, 2016.




6


   2020        : SusanK. Urahn et al., The complex story of American debt, The Pew Charitable Trusts, July 2015.




7


        : Jeff Cox, Consumer debt hits new record of $14.3 trillion, CNBC, May 5, 2020.




8


 ,      ,    : Peter G.Stromberg, Ph.D., Do Americans consume too much? Psychology Today, July 29, 2012.




9


 ,         : Margot Adler, Behind the ever-expanding American dream house, NPR, July 4, 2006.




10


 ,  : Hillary Mayell, As consumerism spreads, Earth suffers, study says, National Geographic, January 12, 2004.




11


              : Eleanor Goldberg, Youre probably going to throw away 81 pounds of clothing this year, HuffPost, June 8, 2016.




12


    ,   : John de Graaf et al., Affluenza, September 1, 2005.




13


          : John de Graaf et al., Affluenza, September 1, 2005.




14


         1,2  : Mark Whitehouse, Number of the week: Americans buy more stuff they dont need, The Wall Street Journal, April 23, 2011.




15


            : Maurie Backman, Guess how many Americans struggle to come up with $400, The Motley Fool, June 5, 2016.




16


        : Maurie Backman, 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings, The Motley Fool, March 28, 2016.




17


           : Maurie Backman, Guess how many Americans struggle to come up with $400, The Motley Fool, June 5, 2016.




18


                ,            : Maurie Backman, Guess how many Americans struggle to come up with $400, The Motley Fool, June 5, 2016.




19


         : Hassan Burke et al., How do families cope with financial shocks? The Pew Charitable Trusts, October 2015.




20


         : Robert Dietz, Single-family home size increases at the start of 2018, Eye on Housing, May 21, 2018.




21


              : John Egan, Guess how many U.S. storage facilities there are versus Subway, McDonalds and Starbucks, SpareFoot Blog, May 11, 2015.




22


      ,        : Almost 1 in 4 Americans say their garage is too cluttered to fit their car, Cision PR Newswire, June 9, 2015.




23


          ,         : University of California TV series looks at clutter epidemic in middle-class American homes, UCTV, n.d.




24


 ,       ,      : Ten-year-olds have ?7,000 worth of toys but play with just ?330, The Telegraph, October 20, 2010.




25


,     ,         : University of Toledo, n.d.




26


     ,  ,     : Malavika Vyawahare, If everyone lived like Americans, we would need five Earths, Hindustan Times, August 2, 2017.




27


      : Chris Stewart, Dayton tops lists of drugged-out cities, Dayton Daily News, August 12, 2016.




28


        : Ferris Jabr, Step inside the real world of compulsive hoarders, Scientific American, February 25, 2013.




29


              : David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, 1740.


