Accumulation
I cleaned out my closet today for the first time in at least a year. (I know…ew.) In the end, I had FIVE TRASH BAGS full of clothes, shoes, belts, purses, etc. that I plan to drop off at the Salvation Army tomorrow. I couldn’t believe it. Little Miss Live Simply is eating humble pie, and planning to practice what she preaches before climbing back on the soapbox.
How and when did I get all this stuff? I don’t remember planning to accumulate a bunch of crap that I never wear or use…it just kinda happened. Surplus, dude. It’s a trip. Which got me to thinking about supply-side economics. I know, I know…we’ve got some hardcore Reagan fanboys that hang around here, so I won’t get into my full-on “that sh*t just doesn’t work” monologue. But, man…if my closet is any indication (and I submit that it is), those of us with a surplus profoundly suck at letting it trickle down. And I am most definitely not buying clothes with my next tax cut.
ugghh. We have been purging the kids clothes lately. We had a yard sale and sold some of them. I had 9 bins of clothes that I managed to condense into 1 of heirloom clothes and the rest are going to Tennessee Infant Parent Services because they give them away to kids that need them.
I am amazed by the amount of junk we accumulate and just seem to hang onto even though it is of no use to us anymore.
I know of someone who needs them. How do I go about signing up for those baby clothes?
It’s true, Aly. Trickle down nuthin’. Everybody who’s got some are holding onto it with two grubby fists. Except us liberals…
Clearly, as evidenced by my FIVE BAGS of crap. I’m a paragon of trickling.
Hey, you’re doing it now. My parents are conservative – both sets of them, I might add – and you should SEE their basements!
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Just proves my point.
ummmm … I think “trickle-down economics” might not mean what you think it means.
Oho, dude, I KNEW you’d get up in here to correct me on what “trickle-down” meant! I KNEW IT! MWA-ha-ha-ha-haaaaa!
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Now that she has it in her trap she wonders what to do with it…
Girls, girls…you’re both pretty. And pack-ratting in basements could be interpreted as broadly within the realm of supply-side economics. I mean, if the whole point of supply-side is to create a surplus for those “higher up” within existing markets so that surplus spills over onto those “lower down”…well, a full basement indicates a surplus of something, and presumably that something (by virtue of the fact that it is sitting in a basement) is not trickling down on anyone. We’re talking broad interpretation here, people. More emblematic and less case study.
Michael, you know I was kidding, right?
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I don’t really know anything at all about conservative/liberal economics. Just mouthing off…