The Oil Drum

Having just spent an awful lot of money on traveling by automobile, and paying from 2.549 to 2.899 for a gallon on 87 octane gasoline over the range of 8 states and 3 weeks.  I hope I am done traveling for a while, but alas I have to go another 3,000 miles before the end of June. Over the same route as earlier this month.  

But I have downsized my life a lot more than most people do in a year.  I filtered out from a 3 bedroom house, and 2 stoarge sheds to a 6' X 6' X 12' trailer.  The bulk of the weight being books, totally over 1,000.  Over half of these non-fiction, and most of them practical and useful for any time period.  Reference with a great lot of survivable information in them.

How many people have their houses chock full of junk they no longer need, have not seen in years, filed in the "i'll fix that up sometime" group, Its a keepsake "we just can't get rid of it, you wore that in highschool last year!"?

We can be as bad as packrats, worst, we can throw away prefectly good items and go buy newer ones to replace them.

Anyway my parents are in their early to mid 70's and I am just back to bumming around, might as well spend some "quaility Time" with my parents, not having any kids to do that with.