How many of us have a garage that can no longer be parked anymore because it is filled up with so much other “stuff?”
How many of us have an off-site storage unit because we have too much “stuff” to keep in our homes, so we arrange for visitation rights to see our “stuff?”
The late comedian George Carlin famously did an entire monologue on this “stuff” — proclaiming that the “meaning of life is trying to find a place to put your stuff” and that “A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” That sounds like a pretty good description of houses that empty out at 5 a.m. on the day after Thanksgiving, “Black Friday,” as everyone hits the early bird, before-Christmas sales.
Funny stuff. But not funny are the TV “reality” shows that feature what happens to …