The phrase
"worthless things" refers to objects or actions that have no value or importance. They are considered to be useless or not worth anything.
Full definition
To no longer spend our brain energy
on worthless things — things that have no value for eternity.
On the other hand, there is an item, item 26 «I am embarrassed to invite people to my home because it is full of piles
of worthless things I have saved», which is missing from our Component 5 and appeared in Component 3 (Contamination) of our version.
In college, I was an English major, wasting my parent's tuition money learning how to read, and then learning how to say
worthless things about what I'd read.
Secular Westerners never give up equating Christianity with
other worthless things though all their good education comes from the Bible and Christian conscience.
During its run, fans tended to focus on the clothes, the fancy cocktails, the lovely people doing enviable things, but the show pulled the rug out from under us all because at its heart, Mad Men was always about
how worthless those things are.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who desires
not worthless things,» says the Psalmist (Ps 24:3 - 4).
Item 26 «I am embarrassed to invite people to my home because it is full of piles
of worthless things I have saved» from the Hoarding subscale of the original English VOCI is missing from our component 4, which has appeared in our component 1.
(stuff) Useless or
worthless things, junk.
Items 26 «I am embarrassed to invite people to my home because it is full of piles or
worthless things I have saved», and item 31 «I almost always count when doing a routine task» belong to hoarding and Indecisiveness subscales, respectively in the original VOCI.
It becomes
a worthless thing in the minds of the acquisitors... they become spoiled brats.