A while ago in high school, we did a small project on a photographer.
Well, anyway, what he did was he would travel all over the world and find families in all sorts of different social positions and ask them to place all of their belongings together in one place, and he would take a picture with the family. Some of them were really astonishing - they ranged from an extremely poor family with barely anything to royalty somewhere in the world, and the sheer amount of belongings was just incredible.
Then, we chose two students, one male and one female, and did the same thing - we emptied out all of their possessions in their dorm room and laid them out on the grass. Even for a small dorm room, it was a lot of stuff.
It really made me think twice about all of the material possessions we have, especially in our culture, when there are so many people who don't have anything.
Thank you DeAne for helping me find a link! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/material.html
Also: 11 days left until November
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