The teacher often told the class that piling up things they couldn't bear to part with but for which they had absolutely no use in a cramped apartment was a typical example of "thinking like poor people." This prompted Ms. Wu to give up her old habit of never throwing anything away. She immediately felt like she had taken a big load of her mind.
有次課堂上老師說，在空間已經很小的家裡，堆放一些捨不得丟棄但卻始終用不到的東西，是不合經濟效益的「窮人想法」，一語點醒了吳秀珠，她立刻改掉「囤積」雜物的習性，也讓心理空間開闊起來。