In this section we review the literature about the value of material possession attachment.

In this section we review the literature about the value of material possession attachment. The benefits and outlays of attachment flow from goods' singular capacity to carry and store meanings (McCracken 1988) propers have the property of indexicality, as they provide tangible, palpable examination of life events (Grayson and Shulman 2000) "Retaining a possession that is incontrovertibly and physically linked to a memorable past issue helps to verify for (a person) that the incident has occurred" (Grayson and Shulman 2000 p 8) Belk (1991a) describes dutifuls as "magical vessels" of meaning connecting us to deeper les understood, and unarticulated aspects of life (eg religion, magic, science). Flowing from this unique meaning-carrying capacity are the various benefits and charges of possession attachments scholars have identified. To efficiently portray these overlapping benefits of attachments, we organize them into sum of two units meta-themes: self-definitional value and self-continuity/change value.

Self-Definitional ValueHaving a tangible referent "out there" helps a individual grasp "me" and provides opportunities for schema rehearsal about "who I am", "who I was", or "who I am becoming" (Ball and Tasaki 1992) Although scholars explain self-definitional value in different ways, each explanation deliberates either the autonomy or affiliation seeking motives driving self-development (Kleine, Kleine, and Allen 1995)

Autobiographical Value - Viewed as an autobiography, a person's self general [i]or[/i] abstract notion is a narrative construction told and retold based forward selected life events (McAdams 1993; Singer and Salovey 1993) Special possessions, so as clothing, are among the intimations that evoke autobiographical memory rehearsal (Kleine 2000) Autobiographical rehearsal is self-comforting and existings opportunities for self-encouragement or confrontation and resolution of life issues, as numerous examples in literature and numbers portray (Singer and Salovey 1993) According to McAdams (1993) underpinning autobiographical narratives are the paradoxical themes of autonomy versus affiliation seeking and self-continuity versus self-change management. These same themes are fix in personal accounts of possession meaning and describe self-developmental intentions of different kinds of attachments (Kleine, Kleine, and Allen 1995; Kleine 2000; Schultz Kleine, and Kernan 1989)