Less is more
Less is more "We have enough for our needs but not for our greed" said Mahatma Gandhi and yet the hunter-gatherer within us rationalizes that our need to collect is always a need for securing the future and never our greed. This survival instinct is so deep-rooted in our genes that call for us to gather and hoard things in anticipation of a catastrophe- a famine, a flood. So here we go shopping and gather things that we may already have and may not even need. Then comes the problem of storing and sorting this clutter that we have created. We often go through our clothes in cupboards and trunks, kitchen shelves and cabinets, attics and garages and we have that Christopher Colombus moment of discovery on finding something ‘new’ least remembering that this was that ‘must- have’ thing we got from one of those big sales and kept it preserved for ‘the rainy day’. For those born in the 60s and 70s, life was not always this way. Shopping was not a daily affair but was restricted on...