joy-to-stuff ratio

plural joy-to-stuff ratios

1. informalA person's ratio of time spent enjoying life to time spent acquiring material goods.

   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.

   2005, Kellyanne Conway, Celinda Lake, What Women Really Want, page 135

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   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.

   2017, Peter Swirski, Tero Eljas Vanhanen, When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow, page 198