Stuff and more stuff
I was at Macy’s briefly this week looking for a lamp. They don’t have lamps. But they do have clothes. It’s their big end of winter sale (it sure doesn’t feel like the end of winter…it’s below zero outside!) They have racks, and racks, and racks of clothing. A huge floor of all women’s clothing and rack after rack.
Now, I am not a mall person. I hardly ever go shopping. But I was tempted to look through these racks - 40% off of the lowest price which was already 30-70% off. This is about as cheap as clothes get. So I started looking through the racks. I finished one, went to another. After about 20 minutes I had looked at maybe 1% of their sale racks.
What happens to all this stuff? This is one store out of hundreds that all have racks and racks of stuff. Where does it all go? Who buys all this stuff? Where do they put it? Isn’t their closet full already? Mine is. What about all the purses, and the belts, and the shoes, and the racks of coats…Where does it all end up?
Sometimes I think America is going to get so full up of stuff that we have no place to sit. Why do we keep on making and buying more stuff all the time?
Today I heard that it takes close to 500 years for a disposable diaper to decompose. What if we get so full of diapers that we have no place to sit. Gross.
I have a friend who has a really bad cold. Her nose is completely stuffed. She is really uncomfortable. My husband just said this last line is unrelated. But I don’t think so. Being stuffed is really uncomfortable. So why do we have so much stuff!