too much stuff!

Today I am taking an unpaid day off work to make progress on the packing front.  I have finally begun to say what Randy has said for months now, "We have too much stuff!"

This is an extremely American phenomenon... no where else in the world is there so much stuff available and so much of the "pack-rat" lifestyle.

So the words of Jesus, "Do not store up your treasure where moth and rust destroy, or thieves break in and steal..." keep going through my mind.  The rest of the world does not have the problem of too much stuff like so many of us here in the West, the majority of the world struggles to have enough to survive.  So I hope to live more simply, and do with a lot less, and be more grateful.  In a real sense it is easier to be thankful when there is less.