Caroline Knapp Why We Keep Stuff Analysis

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In her essay, Why We Keep Stuff: If You Want to Understand People, Take a Look at What They Hang On To, Caroline Knapp indicates the stuff to which we are attached shows important traits which define our personality. She affirms that our houses and workplaces are full of stuff. Although we do not use or need those things, we keep them. Besides, Knapp states we keep different types of stuff: the things we hang on to for “real” reasons (educational or labor reasons) and those that have unexplainable reasons, for instance, magazines, ribbons and transaction slips. Furthermore, Knapp indicates that our stuff has meaning, a personal and sentimental meaning. For this reason, she states that the things that we hang on to are testimonies to the ways

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