There are certain basic obligations you are responsible for in your adult life. When you assume a household of your own, you are committing to take appropriate measures to care for those vital elements necessary for your existence by meeting both the financial obligations for them and the moral obligations of taking care of them.

Undoubtedly, one of the most exciting times in your life was the day you collected furniture to equip your first apartment. Before credit became the national “buy”-word, it was necessary to purchase individual furniture pieces as you could afford them – and since, like most everybody else, you couldn’t, you generally stocked your first apartments with rejects from your parents’ basement. The simple thrill of having a place of your own made up for any feelings of depravation, though.

It’s amazing how little you needed to get by on back in those days. You managed with the absolute minimum cooking utensils and baking dishes. You used an aluminum pie pan for a skillet and you got by with five pieces of miss-matched silverware and three plastic plates. A used pizza box served as your briefcase and your matching luggage consisted of three separate sizes of Kroger sacks.

Wedding gifts were generally the first gold mine for stocking your home with exciting new linens and kitchen utensils, treasures that began to mold your life from that point on. The advent of discount stores added to an already growing stockpile of treasures. Then came credit cards and the accumulation marathon began. The biggest challenge we all now face is: "What am I supposed to do with all this stuff?"

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