Stuffocation in the media
The Zeitgeist? With the sort of coverage so far, it certainly looks like too many people think they have too much.
Stuffocation has featured on and in…
- MSNBC, The Cycle
- BBC One, The One Show (the BBC’s flagship popular current affairs TV programme; watch from 6.24)
- BBC Two, Newsnight (the BBC’s flagship serious current affairs TV programme)
- Channel 4, Sunday Brunch
- Channel 5, The Saturday Show
- ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), The Drum: click to watch here
- CNN, Parable of the city: how buying more gives you less
- CNN, Is ‘Hotel California’ the future of work?
- BBC Radio 2 – Steve Wright in the afternoon (the second biggest radio show, by audience, in the UK)
- BBC Radio 2 – The Chris Evans Breakfast Show (the biggest radio show, by audience, in the UK)
- BBC Radio 4 – Saturday Live (featured guest alongside comedian Ruth Jones)
- BBC Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour
- New York Times, Thoreau, The First Declutterer
- Wired, The Weird Way Facebook and Instagram are Making Us Happier
- Wall Street Journal, The Cult of Tidying Up
- TIME, The Joy of Less
- TIME, Are you on the verge of a ‘clutter crisis’?
- The Sunday Times, What’s up for 2013, an article on trends
- The Sunday Times, Too much stuff!
- The Sunday Times, How I found £5k in my wardrobe
- The Sun on Sunday, Are you stuffocating?
- The Financial Times, You have to be there
- The Telegraph, How to edit your wardrobe and avoid stuffocation
- Red, article on experientialists by Ruby Warrington
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Miami Herald, Review: James Wallman’s Stuffocation
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Chicago Tribune, Self-storage could get bigger than Starbucks in affluent Northwood
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Fast Company, Fast Co Create, 7 Rules for Selling in a World that Has Enough Stuff
- Fast Company, Fast Co Exist, Stop Accumulating Stuff And Start Accumulating Experiences
- Salon, Your stuff can kill you: how hoarding creates death traps
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Huffington Post, This Valentine’s Day, Buy Me Nothing
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On countless US radio stations, from New York to Baltimore, Washington DC, San Francisco, Phoenix, including:
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Sirius XM Progress, The Michelangelo Signorile Show
- WPAT-AM, KTYM-AM, Talk with Audrey
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Sydney Morning Herald
- Greenfield Daily Reporter, Avoid ‘stuffocation’: get rid of your junk
- The Portland Press Herald, Sea Change: A dog and an aunt teach wisdom of living with less stuff
- Omaha World Herald, What to do with ‘stuff’
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Times of India
- Pune Mirror, Decluttering your house
- The Australian, How to downsize your wardrobe
- The Daily News Online, Spring arrivals offer plenty of good reading material
- Irish Times, Don’t buy stuff. Do stuff
- Publinews (Guatemala), ‘Stuffocation’: un estilo de vida que aún se puede evitar
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RTE
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Dave Fanning Show
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The Independent Online (South Africa)
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The New Zealand Herald, The problem of living with too much stuff
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The New Zealand Listener, The age of experience
- Good (women’s magazine in New Zealand), Book review: Stuffocation
- Radio New Zealand
- Business Insider, Take this quiz to find out if you have too much stuff
- BBC News, “Viewpoint: The hazards of too much stuff” (most shared article, with more than 11,000 shares between midnight Friday and midnight Sunday)
- BBC Radio 5 Live
- BBC World Service – the Weekend Show
- BBC Radio London – The Robert Elms Show, The Yasmeen Khan Show, The Harriet Scott & Tim Arthur Show
- BBC Radio Wiltshire
- BBC Radio Wales
- BBC Radio Scotland
- BBC Radio Leeds – The Mark Forrest Show
- Absolute Radio
- Monocle, Monocle 24 radio
- Evening Standard, Enough already, we’re stuffocating
- Church Times, The message is ‘Less is more,’ more or less
- The Observer, broadcaster Mariella Frostrup talked about Stuffocation in her weekly column
- The Observer, broadcaster Lucy Siegle talked about Stuffocation her weekly column
- The Observer, Stuffocation review: James Wallman’s antidote to consumerism
- The Observer, Decluttering: a load of junk?
- Woman & Home, Overwhelmed by too much stuff (not available online)
- Marketing Week, The marketing trends for 2014
- Marketing Week, Have consumers had enough of stuff?
- Business Life (British Airways magazine), Stuffocation: is it time to declutter?
- High Life (British Airways magazine) (article not online)
- Contagious, Stuffocation (not available online)
- Take a Break (UK’s biggest women’s paid-for magazine, by circulation)
- Grazia (article not online)
- Metro News (Canada), On consumerism, trash and the ‘stuffocation’ of our world
- L’Agefi (Switzerland), Stuffocation
- Bang & Olufsen customer magazine, Think big, live small (not available online)
- Quintessentially magazine, Small is beautiful (not available online)
- Mr Porter, Something for the Weekend e-newsletter, What to read
- Mr Porter, The Knowledge – Spring-clean your closet – The author of Stuffocation: Living More With Less on when to hold ’em and when to throw ’em
- Stylist, Emerald Street e-newsletter, Who still bothers with Christmas cards?
- Viewpoint (magazine about trends), Life through an app (not available online)
- Management Today, The human urge to hoard is not on the way out
- The Independent, Paperback reviews
- The Debrief, 2015 IS GOING TO BE THE YEAR I FINALLY DITCH “STUFF”‘: CONFESSIONS OF A REFORMED HOARDER by Evening Standard columnist Rosamund Pike
- Daily Mail, De-clutter my life? I tried — and failed: Minimalism be damned! JANET STREET-PORTER says her junk’s a treasure trove of memories
- Ahmedebad Mirror, Chuck out the clutter
- Daily Mail, Why be happy when you could be shopping?
- Mail on Sunday, Are you being stuffocated? How to declutter your life and live more with less
- The Telegraph, Stuffocation: Living More with Less by James Wallman, review: ‘wait for the documentary’
- The Telegraph, Why it’s time you threw out the Christmas tree
- The Telegraph, Couples everywhere are rowing over clutter
- The Guardian, Stuffocation: Living More With Less by James Wallman review – the power of experiences
- The Guardian, Reading tips for 2015 and James Wallman on the perils of possessions – books podcast
- The Guardian, Spend less on stuff, more on experiences
- The Big Issue, James Wallman: How to live more with less stuff
- Time Out London, Less is more: eight ways to declutter your life
- The Metro, The art of de-stuffocation
- Elle Decoration, featured “what I’m reading” book by editor Michelle Ogundehin
- Red, The Bin Bag Declutter Method
- Grazia (France), J’ai testé : le minimalisme
- The Mirror, How to declutter your house and your mind this spring
- Sundsvalls Tidning (Sweden), Tid är viktigare än saker
- 7 Sur 7 (Belgium), Souffrez-vous de stuffocation?
- Saga magazine
- Business Insider, Take this quiz to find out if you have too much stuff
- Workforce Management, James Wallman Interview: Experiencing Stuffocation
- Sunday Style (Australia), If we downsize and de-clutter our lives can we get more out of life?
- Sunday Style (Australia), Why emptying out the clutter in your life is better for you in more ways than one
- Big Issue, Pause: How to live more with less stuff
- Courier Mail, Why we’re a nation of hoarders
- Cumhuriyet (Turkey), Tüketelim derken bakın nasıl tükeniyoruz
- Dagens Næringsliv (Denmark), Roten til alt rot
- Klikk (Norway), Aldri mer kleskrise med disse tipsene
And more that we need to update — especially in the Netherlands and Belgium!
If you see Stuffocation mentioned on TV, hear it on the radio, or see it mentioned in a newspaper, magazine etc, please let us know and we’ll add it here. Please email info@stuffocation.org

