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What is Lost & Found about?

Why do we buy and keep the things we do, and how can we live a less cluttered life? Journalist Helen Chandler-Wilde dives deep to explore, explain, and guide us on the path to liberation from the tyranny of "too much."On New Year's Eve of 2018, Helen Chandler-Wilde lost everything she owned in a storage unit fire in Croydon, England, where she'd stowed all her possessions after a big breakup. She was left devastated and forced to re-evaluate her relationship with owning material things.In Lost & Found, she offers a profound mix of memoir, self-help, and journalism toexplore the psychological reasons, sociological quirks of human nature, and fascinating science behind why we buy and hold onto things. Helen interviews people from all walks of life, including behavioral psychologists on the science of nostalgia, a nun on what it's like to own almost nothing, and consumer psychologists on why we spend impulsively, to help us better...

Author

Helen Chandler-Wilde

Publisher

Chronicle Books LLC

Language

EN

Rating

3.43 / 5 (6,276 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14