No matter who you are, it's easy to get a little caught up in the idea of getting new stuff. Here's a look at why your brain is so materialistic and what you can do to keep it from overwhelming you.

Increasing levels of debt and bankruptcies are frequently blamed for divorces and conflict within marriage. But new Brigham Young University research suggests that marital woes that can result from ...

There’s a scientific method to raising kind, non-judgmental children. Photo: Corbis. No parent wants their child to grow up valuing things over people and experiences. Yet a new study suggests that ...

The last few weeks have seen me embark on a clutter clearing frenzy. As I work to eliminate the clutter from my home, filling our rubbish bins and donation boxes to their brim, I can’t help but ...

Today's teenagers are more materialistic and less interested in working hard than the baby boomers were in their teens, according to a new study. But sorry, boomers, the researchers say it's probably ...

This post provided by GetRichSlowly.org. I’ve received a lot of interesting out-of-the-ordinary questions from readers recently. Two weeks ago, for instance, Rita asked about the moral implications of ...

It’s the topic of conversation amongst many women I know. Sometimes the topics are spoken about separately, but many times they are somehow intertwined. For that group of women who are infatuated with ...

Hot on the heels of a study suggesting that people who have a car, investments or other personal wealth are more likely to marry drops the other shoe: a study that suggests that people who prioritize ...

One thing I hear quite often is “It’s awful, people are so materialistic. They think that buying things can make them happy, but it can’t.” Well, that statement contains more than one idea. The first ...

Loving money may not be good for your love life, according to new research that finds that materialists have unhappier marriages than couples who don't care much about possessions. The effect holds ...

Some people are thinking outside of the box when it comes to gift giving — literally. There’s a new trend on TikTok in which people are opting out of the tradition of gifting physical items for the ...