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Are Americans Over-Stuffed?
No this isn't a commentary on waist lines but instead on the amount of stuff we seem to accumulate.  Over the last few years I have become acutely aware of the clean up and throw out process.  It started with empting my parent's home of 45 years with a double walk-up attic, then I downsized myself and finally ended up combining two households into one.  Along the way I became friends with the folks at the Fairfax County Dump, Salvation Army, 1-800-Junk, PODS and more  We are coming up on the first anniversary of the last purge and have made a pact that anything in a box, except holiday decorations and true family heirlooms, must be tossed.  If we didn't need it for a year then we can live without it forever.
With this deadline looming I started noticing the number of climate controlled mega storage facility all around the area.  Within shouting distance of my office in Burke there are three.  Every time I drive down another industrial road I see at least another two.  So where has the need come for all of us to hoard so much stuff?
When my parents were growing up during the depression everything had a ... more

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