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April 26, 2005
When stuff collides. . .
From the Christian Science Monitor, two pieces on integrating approaches to stuff:
Welcome to the front lines of Venezuela's new class war. For the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, record oil prices have fed a major surge in consumer spending - and with it, mounds of trash. The trash, in turn, attracts scavengers, some of the estimated 60 percent of Venezuelans mired in poverty. With Caracas's notoriously irregular sanitation services, the capital's littered streets have become a battleground where moneyed and impoverished Venezuelans clash, and rats and cockroaches have become commonplace.
What to do when you really, really, really hate his (or her) pet rock collection:
In an era when remarriage is common and possessions are plentiful, deciding what to keep and what to jettison after saying "I do" can require diplomacy, patience, and perhaps a little friendly persuasion. Love may be lovelier the second time around, as the old song claims. But that doesn't mean the furniture, art, and bric-a-brac second-timers bring to their new nest always appear lovely to a new spouse.I would guess that this is an issue for more than remarriages; people seem to come into marriage with more stuff period, at least in my cohort, in which people generally marry well after they've set up their own houses.
Posted by Miki at April 26, 2005 07:54 PM