joy-to-stuff ratio
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]joy-to-stuff ratio (plural joy-to-stuff ratios)
- (informal) A person's ratio of time spent enjoying life to time spent acquiring material goods.
- 2005, Kellyanne Conway, Celinda Lake, What Women Really Want, page 135:
- 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.
- 2017, Peter Swirski, Tero Eljas Vanhanen, When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow, page 198:
- 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.