Waste
How often do you consider how much of your life you spend working just to buy things that are hardly used and then thrown away? Here is a telling exercise: go through any room in your house and find 5 things to throw away. Unless you are a very unusual and neat person, this should be no problem. Americans seldom use things until they are worn out. I can only think of a couple things that I've worn out in the last couple of years--a pair of jeans and a pair of shoes. And I'm probably an anomaly as an American women--most of my friends wouldn't think of wearing "worn-out" looking shoes.
We spent the last week on a rampage of cleaning and sorting, trying to prepare for showing our house. Greg went on a trip to the dump yesterday and it almost made me ill looking at all the crap that we had to just throw away. A major portion of the load yesterday was particle board bookcase and tables--remnants of our college days when a need for book storage drove us to Walmart/Kmart for cheap storage. But what a waste! A solid wood case would easily sell at a garage sale, or be given to a neighbor, but those cheapo things hardly stand the use of one or two people before they become trash. How much better if we had been thrift store/garage sale shoppers then.
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