Goods as Stock and Promiscuous Consumption

In the stories that sellers tell us, we note that some they come to see the things they own as ‘stock’. This seems significantly different from the curative practices captured in previous research into the divestment of cherished possessions (Lastovicka and Fernandez 2005; Price et al. 2000; McCracken, 1987). Possessions as stock suggests that goods may take a different sort of trajectory from their commodity phase to personal good then back to commodity state again.