Saturday, November 05, 2005

Its about Junk, stuff. Excess.
I was just thinking about stuff when I took a little breeze through the Factory-2-you store here. is paying substandard wages to children in indonesia to produce cheap t-shirts so people who get paid minimum wage can afford to have too much junk too really the route to nirvana for the planet?
Mark Morford has a great way with words. read the whole article.
Why Do You Have So Much Junk? / Oh yes you do. And there are TV shows to prove it. Question is, what are you gonna do about it?: "You have way too much crap.
I'm just guessing. Guessing that right now, in your life, in your closets and in your garage and in your car trunk and in your brain and even in your desk drawer you have way, way too much stuff, far more than any one person or single family needs and, oh my God, have you even seen your closet lately?
Have you seen that riot of old towels and curtain rods and board games you haven't looked at in three years? The old guitar and five pairs of mangy boots and a pile of old T-shirts and two disposable Epson printers and a teetering stack of empty Amazon boxes and four dumbbells and ancient college papers and a power drill and a bunch of old coats and classic porn VHS tapes and an underused Mesa Boogie guitar amp and assorted wrapping paper collected since the Clinton administration? Oh wait, maybe that's my closet. "

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