Stuff.

[SoCalDem]

Nothing we have, will "go with us"

Our kids probably don't want our stuff

We are "saving" things that will cause paroxysms of laughter when our family goes through our belongings (after we depart the planet)

We are spending money on stuff we "need" and "want", and in the end most of those things do not make us happy, healthy and certainly not wealthy or wise

We have houses stuffed to the rafters with "stuff"

We have red stuff, blue stuff, white stuff , brown stuff

Wooden stuff , metal stuff, and loads of plastic stuff

We have hitchhiker stuff on and in our stuff....
(stuff like cadmium, lead,formaldehyde)

We have granite stuff, stainless stuff, marble stuff

We re-buy old stuff we used to have, but got rid of

If we cannot find the real old stuff, we buy new replicas of the old stuff so we can reminisce about how much better our old stuff was

Eventually we realize that we really DO have too much stuff, so we.......


rent a storage unit somewhere to put the overflow stuff in, so we have room for more......

stuff..

:)

[OneGrassRoot]

1. The Story of Stuff

I recently discovered that Glenn Beck has included "The Story of Stuff" in with everything else he sees as a communist/socialist/nazi/fascist conspiracy.

:eyes:

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

[SoCalDem]

2. I'll have to check that out.. although

if Glenn likes it, I may not:)

[GoCubsGo]

4. I'm surprised Beck likes it.

Because, it goes against everything he preaches in the environmental activism department.

[OneGrassRoot]

8. No, he hates it. It's part of the conspiracy he sees everywhere. :) n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

7. Oh, he does NOT like it. Sorry if I worded it wrong. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

3. Excellent post.

The liklihood that I will be forced to sell my house and move has me thinking a lot about "stuff" lately. I already have piles of stuff waiting to be sent to the Goodwill or sold in a yard sale. A good portion of it is useless stuff that other people thought I should have. Nothing like having to move your stuff to make you realize just how much you don't want most of it.

[SoCalDem]

5. and knowing that things you saved for 40 years for your kids, is just stuff

they will put a tag on and try to get 50-cents out of.

I figured this out when I had heirloom jewelry stolen.. I was furious, sick to my stomach & sad, but in the end, I figured that I was just storing it to pass on to someone who would store it to pass on to someone etc., It killed me to think that I could have sold it , but sentimentality made me hang onto it, and in the end someone else sold it (no doubt).. I had been meaning to insure it, but never got around to it, so I ate a loss of around $10K..no use crying over it..it was gone..and that was it.

[rgbecker]

6. I think George Carlin said it best, but I love your rant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

[SoCalDem]

10. I got a kick out of his "a place to put my shit" riff

I sure miss than man:(

[Saturday]

9. I've been to 2 estate garage sales lately....

where you just walk through someone's house and buy their "stuff" brought out of all their cabinets, closets and nooks and cranies. It made me sad and determined to get rid of my stuff before my heirs have to do that to my house.

[SoCalDem]

11. Same here.. My friend & I went to one and just seeing that lady's stuff

all laid out on her bed , made me sad.. There were sweaters she had never worn, and there were ratty well-worn robes.. Her family should have just donated it.. I will definitely ask that of my kids..

That's what we did with my father's things..I did not want people wandering through asking me to "make a deal"..

Better to donate to anonymous people.

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. Brilliantly stated

Could not agree more.

[walldude]

13. How come my stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?

[SoCalDem]

14. 99% of all stuff is

probably shit:rofl:

[Divernan]

15. You mean like my 12 place settings of Minton bone china?

Set includes many serving pieces and even 12 mini soup tureens and platters. 12 place settings of solid sterling silver, too. I inherited this from my Mom, along with an extra large china cabinet chock full of silver serving pieces, Steuben bowls, antique cut glass pieces, etc., some pieces dating back to the 1890's.

I can't afford to entertain 12 people for dinner - maybe at the holidays, I'll have four people at the table. I asked my daughter if she would like the collection. She said it was too formal, and pointed out that people who could afford to throw big dinner parties had them catered anyway, and the caterers provided the china, silver, wineglasses, linens.

Still, I remember big family holiday meals when I was a child, and have some sentimental attachment.

[SoCalDem]

16. Yep..like that..

Gave a hutch full of stuff and the hutch to my son & his wife.. They had room & were interested in it so I said ..let's pack it all up :)

We give stuff away all the time.. If someone comments on something, I say .."take it now".. It's too much trouble to try and sell the stuff.. If it's needed by someone, I just give it to them (unless one of my kids wants it)..

I have been saving my mother in law's rocking chair for one of my sons. She rocked all three of them in it.. but so far none of them wants it.. It's an Ethan Allen old-school, small rocker & does not "fit" with their decor..

I ended up with 3 sets of china & 3 sets of silverware..gave then away.. we use mismatched stainless, because I don't want the mess of having to polish silver..:)..and we eat off of Corning ware dishes & what tupperware lunch plates I still have left..

We never entertain.. Somewhere there are still wedding gifts from 1970..silver compote dishes & fancy stuff still in the boxes:)

[rgbecker]

17. I have old rusty cars.

About 7 of them. Some stored in other people's garages. Keep thinking I'll have time to restore them. Would give them away to anyone who wouldn't junk them.....well, maybe.