Did anyone see this on MSNBC?
http://money.msn.com/retirement-plan/the-great-american-yard-sale-smartmoney.aspx
Basically, this is an article about the excess of stuff in America and how worthless it is because there is so very, very much of it.
I see a lot of the men from Central America who come here to work and find themselves doing grounds maintenance which takes them through the burbs of America. What do they find there but yardsales! This must be quite a surprise to find that, in America, you can live such a well provided for life, if you live off the excess. There is plenty of excess. It seems to be endless.
I see it all the time at yard sales where someone just bemoans the fact that they paid such and such for that item, or that they bought it at such and such a place and now someone wants to buy if for a dollar. The truth is that it is only worth as much as someone wants to trade you for it. The fact that there is so much excess makes most of it pretty worthless. Too many people end up putting all that stuff back in the garage, or just giving it away to write off.
I thought that the article was interesting.
