Stuff Stuff Stuff

Stuff, stuff, stuff...how devastating to me to note how North American society is so sickeningly obsessed with stuff. 

To quote J.D. Roth in his "Get Rich Slowly" site it is "Because we suffer from stuffitis. We already have too much Stuff, but we want more."
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2012/06/18/changing-focus-from-stuff-to-stubstance/

I chuckled when I read the Frugal Vegan's comment "There is also this obsession here with owning lots of junk and stocking a house with so much processed foods and household supplies as if people were expecting a war. Seriously people? Do you really need to stock 24 cans of tomatoes all at once?"  http://thefrugalvegan.net/?p=5363

Unfortunately with a nameless relative very close to me who could almost win a 'well-deserved' place on one of those hoarder TV shows with her pantry stocked to keep a family of 40 for an entire year in the case of a Bruce Nuclear Power Plant meltdown I can only shake my head and rub my belly from the ache of laughing aloud at the truth of Frugal Vegan's commentary.

As those who know me well will inform you: I am a fairly anti-stuff kinda gal.  So I have decided that every Saturday my blog will be dedicated to/as the "Saturday Stuff-It Chronicles" (SSIC for short - hopefully I won't receive flack from the US military with their Sensor Source Intelligence Cell or Florida's Sunshine State Insurance Company or from IBM's System Storage Interoperation Center - because you just KNOW people from those organizations are bound to be curled up with their laptop scanning MY blog...)

I know I know, it is only Friday.  This is the lead-up...(oh, yes, create the excitement, build the hype...less than 24 hours to go, folks...is that you camped out on my badly-in-need-of-mowing backyard with your laptops poised and ready for tomorrow's entry???  Must be...who else would so recklessly pitch a tent amidst childhood game debris of balls and such and guinea pigs doing their best to obsolete a lawnmower and the crazy squash vines, planted in the compost "box", that have taken over what seems to be a quarter of our back area?)  Yes, yes, you are anxious for tomorrow and its Stuff treasures...

Sleep well, my sweets...See you on the 25th, my nephew's first birthday, for the first installment of the Saturday Stuff-It Chronicles...