Aging Parents with Lots of Stuff, and Children Who Don’t Want It
It&#x27;s definitely a generational thing and younger folks have never seen a repair and retain society or scarcity that drives that hoarding attitude.  And unless they collect or inherit vintage equipment (survivor bias aside) they haven&#x27;t purchased anything designed to last many years much less decades.<p>Before anyone accuses me of slagging on Millennials I don&#x27;t mean it that way. I mean since we have a manufacturing base that is in my opinion far more aggressive about planned obsolescence than 50+ years ago and several generations used to cheap, low quality goods manufactured overseas why would they want or need anything else?  We value the novel and inexpensive over the durable.