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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (101128)	5/1/2005 9:02:56 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Gee, I'm sorry it took me so long to get to that very nice article you posted about how Americans are so materialistic and have so much junk. I couldn't agree more! Because I was stuck at home today I watched a marathon of the British program Cash in the Attic on BBC America. Have you ever watched it? It seems like a really nice program on the surface because an appraiser comes to the home of the featured family and helps them go through their junk and appraises it to sell some of it at auction. Then you follow the family through the auction process. At first it made me want to buy things at auction, and gave me a better understanding of how many interesting antique tidbits exist in England. The prices for very nice Georgian furniture at auction, particularly, are very inexpensive. But then after watching it awhile I realized that I didn't want to be one of those people with junk stashed everywhere. If there is so much you can't look at it and enjoy it, why bother? There is one additional nice thing about this show, though. The people who are selling their stuff are doing so because they want to meet some other goal, like taking a cruise or planting a lovely garden or putting a child through law school. Or getting rid of things after a spouse has died and they want to downsize. Really nice, positive, mind clearing goals. And instead of using credit cards, they are selling off their stuff Such a refreshing concept!