joy-to-stuff ratio
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Noun[edit]
joy-to-stuff ratio (plural joy-to-stuff ratios)
- (informal) A person's ratio of time spent enjoying life to time spent acquiring material goods.
- 2005, Kellyanne Conway, Celinda Lake, What Women Really Want (page 135)
- It's more about evaluating the joy-to-stuff ratio in your life, and halting the hyperconsumerism that is creating excess debt, complications, and stress.
- 2017, Peter Swirski, Tero Eljas Vanhanen, When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow (page 198)
- Philip Brewer […] advises increasing what he calls the joy-to-stuff-ratio and redefining guilty pleasures as shared social experiences that people can revisit together in a frugal manner.
- 2005, Kellyanne Conway, Celinda Lake, What Women Really Want (page 135)