
(b. 1979– )
U.S. actor“I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own…It started a couple of years ago. It was in response to going to these Golden Globe type events and they just give you stuff. You don’t want it. You don’t use it. And then Mad Men started to become a success on a popular level and people started sending me stuff, just boxes of shit. Gifts for every holiday, clothes. One day, I looked around and thought ‘I don’t want this stuff, I didn’t ask for it.’ So I started giving it to friends or charity stores, or if it is still in its box I might sell it for a hundred bucks. I liked it so I didn’t stop.”
more infosource: “The Observer,” by Tim Adams, in The Guardian, Sunday, April 25, 2010.
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category: awards, consumerism, Golden Globes, Mad Men, materialism, paring down, stuff
medium: newspaper profile
notes: Vincent Kartheiser plays Pete Campbell in the television series Mad Men


Vincent Kartheiser