How much "Stuff" is enough?
I was walking my dog this morning. With the suddenly cooler weather, neighborhood garages are open more often.
I live in a neighborhood with a lot of 3 car garages.
It amazed me this morning to see 3 car garages jammed with so much stuff, only ONE lane of the garage was empty for a car to park.
One garage had boxes of probable crap stacked to the ceiling.
One garage, (I am sure some here will appreciate this..) has converted most of their garage to a smoking room, bar, TV room.
Imagine an older couple, leaving a perfectly air conditioned home in Mid July; sitting in plastic lounge chairs in their garage, surrounded by glowing neon bar signs, watching a 1980's 23 inch TV.
There were 3 box fans blowing, they sit there, smoking, drinking and oblivious.
It had to be 95 degrees in that dusty garage, 74 degrees in their now vacant home.
All I can figure is they used to frequent a hot, dusty, smokey bar when dating and this is their nirvana, circa 1983.
Anyhow, back to "stuff"
here is a snippet of the article..
"I know this is a sacrilegious question, but is anybody else tired of buying and owning stuff? Is anybody else tired of dealing with all the junk cluttering up every corner of the room/house/nation?
Has anyone else noticed we have surplus stuff coming out our ears? And that therefore we don't really need any more stuff? Has anyone noticed the psychological consequences of constantly buying and managing possessions? Here is how correspondent B.D. recently put it:
Kids have a melt-down when they don't have the latest iteration of the (insert trendy electronica here) or if they are asked to tidy up the gargantuan collection of "stuff" they are slowly suffocating themselves with. Most kids these days don't have bedrooms anymore ... they have a small warehouse of goods in which they have a sleeping space."
Rest of article here..
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-anybody-else-tired-buying-and-owning-stuff
I was walking my dog this morning. With the suddenly cooler weather, neighborhood garages are open more often.
I live in a neighborhood with a lot of 3 car garages.
It amazed me this morning to see 3 car garages jammed with so much stuff, only ONE lane of the garage was empty for a car to park.
One garage had boxes of probable crap stacked to the ceiling.
One garage, (I am sure some here will appreciate this..) has converted most of their garage to a smoking room, bar, TV room.
Imagine an older couple, leaving a perfectly air conditioned home in Mid July; sitting in plastic lounge chairs in their garage, surrounded by glowing neon bar signs, watching a 1980's 23 inch TV.
There were 3 box fans blowing, they sit there, smoking, drinking and oblivious.
It had to be 95 degrees in that dusty garage, 74 degrees in their now vacant home.
All I can figure is they used to frequent a hot, dusty, smokey bar when dating and this is their nirvana, circa 1983.
Anyhow, back to "stuff"
here is a snippet of the article..
"I know this is a sacrilegious question, but is anybody else tired of buying and owning stuff? Is anybody else tired of dealing with all the junk cluttering up every corner of the room/house/nation?
Has anyone else noticed we have surplus stuff coming out our ears? And that therefore we don't really need any more stuff? Has anyone noticed the psychological consequences of constantly buying and managing possessions? Here is how correspondent B.D. recently put it:
Kids have a melt-down when they don't have the latest iteration of the (insert trendy electronica here) or if they are asked to tidy up the gargantuan collection of "stuff" they are slowly suffocating themselves with. Most kids these days don't have bedrooms anymore ... they have a small warehouse of goods in which they have a sleeping space."
Rest of article here..
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-anybody-else-tired-buying-and-owning-stuff
