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Wendy Harmer's Stuff

Season 1 2007
TV-G

  • 2007-03-11T09:00:00Z on ABC (AU)
  • 30m
  • 1h 30m (3 episodes)
  • Australia
  • Comedy, Documentary
From the cradle to the grave, Stuff examines the abiding passion all of us have for stuff – the stuff we buy, the stuff we treasure, the stuff we desire and the stuff that’s most important to us. Wendy Harmer – a pioneer of Australian comedy, and world-class accumulator –presents this four-part series that takes us from a baby shower to a retirement home; from a school yard to a prison. She asks everyone she meets: Why do you love your stuff so much? What does it mean to you? What’s the best stuff of all? Present-day Australian society is one of the most asset-rich in human history. The modern mantra is that we now have “too much stuff” and that “stuff doesn’t make us happy”, and yet we all have objects which are precious to us. Objects can hold memories, inspire through the ages and, when offered as gifts, bind us to one another. Yet all too often the piles of “stuff” we own seem beyond our control. Although the topic of consumerism has been theorised and written about for many years, recent concerns about mass-production, globalisation, global warming and resource shortage, have made us all concerned with “over-consumption”. We now understand that our love for stuff could cost us the earth. But how can we begin to give up our desire for stuff, unless we understand why we have it in the first place? Stuff asks: Are we hard-wired to accumulate? At what age do we begin to identify stuff as our own? Why do we choose the stuff we do? How do we express our unique personalities through our stuff? And how does our attitude to stuff change on life’s cluttered journey? The answers Wendy is given tell us that our relationship with our stuff is much more complex that we might realise…And that our conversations about over-consumption have only just begun. Created and Written by Wendy Harmer. Producers - Laura Waters and Wendy Harmer. Series Producer, Georgie McClements. Director,Ted Emery. Princess Pictures Production for ABC T

4 episodes

Series Premiere

2007-03-11T09:00:00Z

1x01 Our Stuff

Series Premiere

1x01 Our Stuff

  • 2007-03-11T09:00:00Z30m

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.

2007-03-18T09:00:00Z

1x02 My Stuff

1x02 My Stuff

  • 2007-03-18T09:00:00Z30m

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?

2007-04-01T09:30:00Z

1x04 Stuffed

1x04 Stuffed

  • 2007-04-01T09:30:00Z30m

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.

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