Midpack
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
From a book I am reading:
Mostly preaching to the choir here, but funny to reflect on lifestyle "progress."The average US family home size in 1950 was 983 sqft. The average US family home size in 2011 was 2,840 sqft. Not only are our homes three times the size, but the size of families has shrunk from an average of 3.37 people in 1950, to just 2.6 today. Why do we need all this space? Well, the $22 billion-dollar-a-year home storage and organization industry may provide the answer, we need the space for all our stuff!
We spend millions on products to make our lives easier so we don't have to scrub our toilets anymore (along with hundreds of other time/effort saving products), and then we buy more useless gizmos - powders and shakes and ab-rollers or fitness club memberships. In an effort to make our lives easier it seems like we've created three problems for every one we've tried to solve. Nowhere is this one step forward, two steps back thinking more evident than in how many of us treat physical activity. It becomes one more chore added to our crammed to do lists. We're so pressed for time that taking care of ourselves is often the first thing to get bumped.