Hoarding

Tonight's episode of CSI dealt with hoarding. Laurence Fishburne quoted Erich Fromm, which is a name I hadn't heard since high school, on the topic of life. Seems there are two kinds of life: having and living, and in our culture having sometimes gets out of control. There are over 2 billion square feet of public storage space in US. That's like 7 square feet per person, which isn't much, except nobody anybody knows is using it. So it must be a small minority of hoarders who have overflowed their homes and have had to expand. I am not using any public storage (yet), but my basement is getting filled up with stuff. Most of it is useful, but it never gets used.