Martin, you wanna feel better sometime, just come over and take a look at my garage.

There is a fixed ammount of stuff in my family, it just gets passed from father to son a little bit at a time every time they visit.

My grandfather lived through the great depression and never threw anything away since. He taught me how to pull nails from scrap wood, straighten, and re-use them.

There is also a fixed ammount of stuff in our town. Four times a year we put our unwanted "bulky items of refuse" on the curb and then drive around picking up stuff we do want from everybody else. The town claims that they pay to have this stuff collected and taken to the landfill but I think someone just pockets the money.