So much stuff, so little time—Kottke recently pointed to a good article entitled Too much of a good thing? at rootburn. Many people now have so much stuff that they don't have the time to consume, much less to savor. In rootburn's case with music, he falls back on the tried and true music that he played on CD and now listens to on his computer.

I've experienced the same thing with back issues of The New Yorker magazine. I scrounge them from the used bookstore in town and the public library, and from friends. I never want to discard one until I've had the time to at least leaf through the contents. I could resist adding to the collection, but when they are free or cost 10 cents, it's hard to say no, not unlike and addiction. I've also got piles of unread books that were purchased at the same places. I think I have this fear of not having any new reading material on hand, which is rediculous now given the Web and other elctronic media such as ebooks.

I think about this every time I see a new storage facility pop up in the area; another place to store the stuff we accumulate/hoard. Not only are our bodies bursting at the seams, so are our houses.
posted by Bruce Wright at 11:31 AM #