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High Noon: A Culture Of Storage

We traveled to Coeur d’Alene to do some business and Christmas shopping. As I predicted it was hideous, with that awful music being played everywhere and shoppers apparently oblivious to each other, shoving and pushing, grabbing and lining up like a bunch of idiots to buy mostly Chinese junk. I was struck again on the way by just how much storage has become big business in the U.S. There are huge storage facilities being built everywhere, as if there is no end to the demand. I guess everyone has to have a place to stash the junk they buy at Christmas. As I have observed previously, there is something very wrong with a culture that requires so much storage/ Morialekafa . More here .

Question: Do you agree with Morialekafa of Boundary County that we all own too much junk?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog