Wendy Harmer's Stuff

Can a “chucker” and a “hoarder” ever live happily together? What happens when our love of stuff gets in the way of love and stuff? What’s it like to have your stuff taken from you? Wendy talks to prisoners, students, backpackers, newlyweds, chuckers and hoarders about their stuff – what it means to them, why they have it and why they can’t live without it.

Wendy spends time at a baby shower and visits pre-schools, shopping centres, teenagers’ bedrooms and boarding schools to try to find the answer to the question: Are we hard-wired to accumulate stuff? Or is it something we learn?

When we grow old and realise that we can’t take our stuff with us, is that when we truly understand its value? This week we finish the story of stuff as Wendy talks with retirees, ‘Grey Nomads’, monks and priests and looks at the stuff we can carry through the eye of a needle.