An interesting article in the weekend Wall Street Journal: "Saved by the Closet." Did you know that the average UStatesian owned 98 articles of clothing, not counting underwear and pyjamas, including 16 T-shirts and 7 pairs of jeans? In my household, we have so many T-shirts that one time I contemplated stuffing them into the walls to save on our energy bills. People in the U.S. (and likely elsewhere as well) have so much stuff that in some ways it's been a relief to have a recession. I can actually see the back of my pantry and the floor of my bathroom cabinets now whereas a few years ago, they were so full you couldn't even get the doors closed. I was rather ashamed to read that the average person in the U.S. owns 11 pairs of shoes. I own more than a dozen pairs of sandals, and have about the same number of dress shoes and about the same number of pairs of cowboy boots. Then, there are the ski boots, snowshoe boots, mountain climbing boots, rock climbing shoes, hiking boots and shoes, running shoes, sneakers...for every sport I take up, it seems like there's new footwear that needs to be obtained!! I'm glad the article didn't talk about hats!!