Whay Do Americans Love Their Junk?

I have a friend who back in 2007 built one of those walk-in storage locker places on some land he owned next to the garage where he and his son did a decent business repairing cars. Within a month or even less, he had rented every single locker space.

This was at the time when the economy was collapsing because if all those phony mortgages and my state, Massachusetts, was setting records for the number of families that were losing their homes. So, I assumed that my friend had rented out all his walk-in lockers because families who had been evicted needed some place to store their furniture and belongings until they figured out where they were going to live.

One day I was down at my friend’s place and when he told me that all his lockers had been rented and that he was thinking of putting up some more, being a typical liberal I said, “Well sure, that’s what happens when people are thrown out of their homes because they can’t pay the increases in those mortgages which they signed without realizing they would be screwed when the mortgage rate changed.”

To which my friend responded, “Mike, I haven’t rented a single locker to anyone who has been evicted from their home. The reason people rent these storage units is they all have too much shit!”