Suckcessories

 

In Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, Sam Gosling distinguishes between those items we like to have around because they express identity claims, like a poster of a favorite band, and those items we keep around because they help to regulate our moods, like Successories. People who surround themselves with mood-regulating items tend to score high on measures of anxiety. Which makes sense.

So I don't know what it says about me that I not only make my own personal line of mood-regulating posters, but put them in a computer file that I never look at, and that most of them are, at least on the face of it, mildly depressing. But there you are.