material goods

He added that everyone in the house was unharmed and while there was some damage, it was "as minimal as possible, it was material goods. I just have to thank God for the way the aircraft crashed."

“But some people paid with their lives. This is a loss of material goods. We are going to rebuild. We are strong,” he added.

Giving Tuesday’s arrival days after Thanksgiving and Black Friday snaps us out of the funk brought on by consumption of food and material goods at peak levels.

“From the time he was young, he had a sense that experiences mattered more than material goods,” Polin said.

It may be that if we have good, distributed policies, people may say, “Well, our standard of living is sufficiently high—I don’t need that many material goods.”