Don’t Let Your Stuff Own You

They’re just possessions. Hold onto them loosely.

My friend Bret knows a man named Mr. Knuppe. In the 1960s Mr. Knuppe moved into his first California apartment. It was small and had no garage. He was soon frustrated by the lack of space for all his stuff, so he purchased a small industrial building and called it “Self-Storage.” People in California told Mr. Knuppe he was nuts. They said, who will ever pay money just to use a shed to store stuff? Nobody has that much stuff, they said.