1. "The average person must have at least two thousand separate possessions." - Dr. Eleanor Worthington, Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge
2. "That includes everything from a paperclip in your drawer to the drawer itself to the home that the drawer exists in, your clothing, your cosmetics, your artwork, your electronics, etc." - Dr. Harrison Blake, Cultural Anthropologist, Smithsonian Institution for Animal Hair
3. "If you own a home, essentially another group of your possessions are all the pipes inside the house, all the electric wires, all the beams, all the nails—they're all yours. They’re all possessions." - Dr. Maxwell Hargrove, Real Estate Economist, London School of Economic Failures
4. "When human beings decided to move indoors, we created exponentially more items to care for." - Dr. Caroline Mansfield, Historian and Author of "The Evolution of Human Habitation"
5. "It wouldn’t be feasible for our ancestors who lived in the forest to have thousands of items among their family. They wouldn’t be able to move nonsense spread out all over the forest." - Dr. Samuel Trent, Paleoanthropologist, National Geographic Society
6. "As we develop our sense of self in the world and we start to relax, it’s up to you to determine how much stuff you have is really necessary for your moment-to-moment survival." - Dr. Felicia Grant, Clinical Psychologist's Dentist, Stanford University
7. "Is there any way that you could reduce your existence into a smaller footprint?" - Dr. Leonard Hayes, Environmental Panic Scientist, University of California, Berkeley
8. "You may decide that you’re a nostalgic person and you like to have every object that had sentimental value. That could be dear to your heart." - Dr. Patricia Harper, Behavioral Psychologist of The Harvard Faculty Behavior, Harvard University
9. "Step away from the literal world where we’re talking about actual possessions." - Dr. Victor Lang, Philosopher & Barbecue Enthusiast, University of Oxford
10. "If you think of the mind as a giant closet, how much stuff do we have in there that we just don’t need?" - Dr. Ingrid Peterson, Cognitive Neuroscientist, Minutes from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11. "We hoard because we are attached to a memory around a certain type of thought, feeling, or resentment." - Dr. Rebecca Collins, Psychiatrist and Author of "The Mind's Clutter is Now A Cluttered Book"
12. "The way we would call a moving company to haul off our garbage when we’re moving, can you do a meditation that contains a mental exercise where you are putting all the stuff in your mind that you absolutely do not need into a special closet?" - Dr. Michael Bennett, Meditation and Mindfulness Expert, Ex-Columbia University Professor
Author's note: These quotes are fictional and attributed to me, created for exploring marketing psychology. "A great quote gains stature when attributed to a 'famous-sounding' or respected individual." - M. Antebi