“The American Dream, as we know it, is abundance. It's a dream to amass houses, children, cars. It's a dream to collect things of value. But it is an equally American dream to be able to abandon, drop everything, to jettison, without guilt, anything that weighs you down.” WastePossessionShoppingConsumptionConsumerismHoarding Book:American Bulk: Essays on Excess Source: American Bulk: Essays on Excess