Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The costs of 'free'

What is the cost of a free item?

  • the thoughts/attention, effort and time spent to
    • use it
    • decide where to store it
    • worry about losing it
    • find it if it's lost
    • decide whether or not to keep it and then how to transport or dispose of it during a move
  • the space it takes to store it
  • the time and effort it takes to maintain it
  • the loss of neatness to clutter...

It's not really free, is it?

2 comments:

  1. haha, so true! but we've become so consumed with material growth that any opportunity to increase material growth, withouth a 'foreseen material cost,' and we jump at it! thanks for sharing this :)

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  2. You're welcome! When I see things from this perspective, I start to realize that in many ways, less really can be more.

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