Nothing you buy will change you

The magical thinking of stuff

I say “nothing you buy will change you” even though I, A) work in advertising and B) love stuff so much. Or maybe it’s because of those two things that I feel uniquely qualified to talk about stuff. I think about stuff a lot—how to sell it, how to rationalize buying it, or how to answer my husband’s question “Is that dress new?” with “No, it’s old” sinc…