<grin>...yup...I've heard that too...mainly from people living paycheck-to-paycheck and in debt up to their rear-ends!

IMHO rampant, needless consumerism, squandering of resources, leaving my country devoid of manufacturing capacity, and the transferrence to national wealth to countries who don't like us anyway is inherently MORE un-American. I could be wrong.

We're slowly paring down as well. I've taken a boatload of stuff to Goodwill. More is on the way...little by little...