5. Belk, Highways and Buyways.
6. PW Staff, “Geffen’s Collection Tops in Value,” Private Weatlth, June 6, 2013, www .Fa-mag.com.
7. Werner Muensterberger, Collecting: An Unruly Passion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), 3.
8. Lou Schuler, “Why Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Is Technically Obese,” Men’s Health, April 16, 2015, www.menshealth.com/weight-loss/problem-bmi.
9. Henriette Kellum, LCSW, “Hoarding Behavior in the Elderly,” Virginia Center for the Aging, Summer 2012, Volume 27, Number 3, 2.
10. Joyce Wadler, “Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression,” New York Times, April 1, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/garden/02depression.html?fta=y&pagewanted=all&_r=0.
11. Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (New York: Haper Perennial, 2010), 2.
12. Adam Waytz, Nicholas Epley, and John T. Cacioppo, “Social Cognition Unbound: Insights Into Anthropomorphism and Dehumanization,” Current directions in psychological science 19.1 (2010): 58–62. PMC. Web. 26 Mar. 2015.
13. Kiara R. Timpano and Ashley M. Shaw, “Conferring humanness: The role of anthropomorphism in hoarding,” Personality and Individual Differences 54.3 (2013): 383–388.
14. Ibid.
15. Kelly L. Haws, Rebecca Walker Naylor, Robin A. Colter, William O. Bearden, “Keeping it All Without Being Buried Alive: Understanding Product Retention Tendency,” Journal of Consumer Psychology, Volume 22 Issue, 2 April 2012, 224–236.
16. Joshua Ackerman and Lawrence Williams, “Please Touch The Merchandise,” Harvard Business Review, December 15, 2011, www.HBR.com.
17. Hal Arkes, Waleed Muhanna, James Wolff, “The power of touch: An examination of the effect of duration of physical contact on the valuation of objects,” Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 3, No. 6, August 2008, 476–482.
18. Roger Harrabin, “Magpies ‘Don’t Steal Shiny Objects,’” BBC News, August 16, 2014, www.BBC.com.
19. “Magpie steals woman’s engagement ring and buries it in nest for three years,” Telegraph, August 28, 2008, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2637365/Magpie-steals-womans-engagement-ring-and-buries-it-in-nest-for-three-years.html.
20. Regina Macedo and Michael Mares, “Neotoma Albigula,” Mammalian Species Number 310, American Society of Mammologists, June 30, 1998.
21. Brown calls the structure nests. Von Devender insists they be called dens or houses.
22. Elizabeth Svoboda, “For Clues on Climate, Seeing What Packrats Kept,” New York Times, November 14, 2006.
23. Ibid.
24. Remy Melina, “Why Do Medical Researchers Use Mice?,” www.livescience.com, November 16, 2010.
Chapter 4: From Austin to Akron
1. Sarah Coles, “First issue of Playboy—featuring Marilyn Monroe—set to sell for $2,700,” http://money.aol.co.uk, May 1, 2015.
2. Juan Castillo, “Old story, new chapter: Austin leads U.S. in growth among biggest Metro Areas,” Austin American Statesmen, March 15, 2013.
3. Colin Pope, “How many people move to Austin a day? Here’s the official number,” www .bizjournals.com, February 14, 2014.
Chapter 5: Defining Your Terms
1. The other definition of junk is the name of a Chinese flat-bottom boat.
2. Stephen Bleecker Luce, Seamanship, United States Naval Academy (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1868), 50
3. Jeanne Fahnestock, Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) 55.
4. Richard B. Kielbowwicz, “A History of Mail Classification and Its Underlying Policies and Purposes,” Postal Rate Commission’s Mail Reclassification Proceeding, MC95-1, July 17, 1995, 74.
5. C. P. Trussle, “Junk Mail Stirs the Ire of Congress,” New York Times, December 27, 1954.
6. Ibid.
7. “Sanitation Department to Offer Anti Junk Mail Service,” www.ny1.com, October 8, 2014.
8. Ray Everett-Church, “The Spam That Started It All,” Wired, April 13,1999.
9. Philip Wolney, The Truth About Heroin, Drugs and Consequences (New York: Rosen Group Publishing, 2014), 9.
10. Ben Zimmer, “Junk,” New York Times, December 30, 2010.
Chapter 6: Space Junk
1. “Space Debris and Human Spacecraft,” www.NASA.gov, September 26, 2013.
2. Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space (Warner Brothers Films, 2014).
3. Tarik Malik, “Space Junk Forces Station Astronauts to Take Shelter in Lifeboats,” Space.com, March 24, 2012.
4. “Limiting Future Collision Risk to Spacecraft: An Assessment ofNASA’s Metreoroid and Orbital Debris Programs,” The National Academies, Washington DC, 2011.
5. Collision Point: The Race to Clean Up Space (Warner Brothers Films, 2014).
Chapter 7: Junk Vets
1. Susannah Breslin, “How to Get People to Click on Your Links,” Forbes, August 7, 2012, www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2012/08/07/how-to-get-people-to-click-your-link.
2. Video interview with Jerry Flanagan, J Dog Franchise Official, www.youtube.com, April 22, 2013.
3. Scott Keller, Marine Pride: A Salute to America’s Elite Fighting Force (New York: Kensington Publishing, 2004), 11.
4. Peter A. Gudmundsson, “The Hire More Veterans Act is misguided. There is no veteran’s unemployment crisis,” Washington Post, January 15, 2015.
5. Lilia Fernández, Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), 2.
6. Louise Kerr, “The Mexicans in Chicago,” Illinois History Teacher-Volume 6, (1991), 62–75.
Chapter 8: Business and Show Business
1. Ashley Lutz, “The Container Store Trains Workers to Ask This Question So You’ll Spend More Money,” www.BusinessInsider.com, February 19, 2015.
2. Gaile Robinson, “Store Founders Cannot Contain Zeal to Order Lives,” Fort Worth Telegram/Tuscaloosa News, May 7, 2000.
3. Ben Doherty, “G20: As Brisbane prepares to host the 2014 summit, your questions answered,” www.theguardian.com, November 10, 2014.
4. Eve Zaunbrecher, “Too Much Is Not Enough: Attitudes Toward Accumulation and Hoarding in Japan,” Victoria and Albert Museum, www.vam.ac.uk, December 6, 2014.
5. Doug Rossinow, The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), 125.
6. Ibid, 47.
7. Lynn Rosellini, “First Lady Tells Critics: ‘I am Just Being Myself,’” New York Times, October 13, 1981.
8. Lizabeth Cohen, “A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America,” Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 31, June 2004, dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4699747/cohen_conrepublic.pdf?sequence=2.
9. Sam Hornblower, “Walmart & China: A Joint Venture,” Frontline, www.pbs.org, November 23, 2004.
10. California Cable and Telecommunications Association, “The History of Cable: 1980s,” www.calcable.org/learn/history-of-cable.
11. The Cable Communications Act of 1984, Public Law 98-549, October 30, 1984.
12. From PBS Broadcast.
13. Erin Murray, “Exclusive Home Tour with Mike Wolfe,” www.Nashvillelifestyles.com.
14. The NSGCD Clutter Hoarding Scale Official Organizational Assessment Tool, 2003, National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization, 6.
15. Jane Collingwood, “The Genetics of Compulsive Hoarding,” www.psychcentral.com.
Chapter 10: Annie Haul
1. Hillary Lake, “Rats invade NE Portland street; neighbors fed up,” www.Katu.com, April 10, 2014.
2. State of Oregon Plaintiff v. Norman D. Wicks, Sr. and Norman D. Wicks, Jr. Defendants, Case No. Z711742 & Z711743, Opinion and Order Granting Defendents’ Motion to Hold Portland’s Campng Ban Unconstitutional, September 27, 2000.
Chapter 11: All You Need Is Less
1. Tom Ashbrook, “Big Potential for Tiny Houses,” On Point, WBUR/NPR, March 4, 2015, https://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/
03/04/tiny-houses-micro-apartments.
2. Kirsten Dirksen, “Tiny House Pioneer Jay Shafer, Thinking Beyond Trailer Parks,” January 2014, www.faircompanies.com/videos/view/tiny-house-pioneer-jay-shafer-thinking-beyond-trailer-parks.
3. Margot Adler, “Behind the Ever Expanding American Dream,” All Things Considered, NPR, July 4, 2006, www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5525283.
4. Harriet Edelson, “Brian Levy Seeks to Spark a Revolution with His Innovative Micro House,” Washington Post, December 4, 2014.
5. Natalie Shutler, “Home Shrunken Home,” New York Times, February 20, 2015.
6. Sam Frizell, “The New American Dream Is Living in a City, Not Owning a House in the Suburbs,” Time, April 25, 2104, http://time.com/72281/american-housing.
7. Kirsten Dirksen, “Tiny House Pioneer Jay Shafer, Thinking Beyond Trailer Parks,” January 2014, www.faircompanies.com/videos/view/tiny-house-pioneer-jay-shafer-thinking-beyond-trailer-parks.
Chapter 14: The Repair Café
1. Sally McGrane, “An Effort to Bury a Throwaway Culture One Repair at a Time,” New York Times, May 9, 2012.
2. Molly Scot Cato, “The Paradox of Green Keynesianism,” in The Post-Growth Project: How the End of Economic Growth Could Bring a Fairer and Happier Society, ed. John Blewitt and Ray Cunningham (London: London Publishing, 2014).
3. Kyle Weins, “The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable,” Wired, June 14, 2012, www.wired.com/2012/06/opinion-apple-retina-displa.
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