This is so different to the attitude of my parents' generation who always salvaged whatever they thought might come in handy some rainy day. They saved their money and saved everything that might have a use in future. If you owned a shed well really it cost you nothing to keep stuff. Today there is not the same concept of time and I am convinced that many of today's youth live entirely for the present. Generally speaking very few save anything, let alone money. Many see no real hope of owning anything like a house in the future, so they just live for the day. They see the past as the "old days", and will sometimes reminisce about these times, which were surprisingly just 2-3 years ago. LOL!
Yeah, I sometimes think that my old man has a cardboard box fetish! He just can't bring himself to chuck them out, so the garage/workshop [which contains his boat; the cars have carports] is full of them.
The 'live day by day' thing is all that some of today's youngsters are capable of - all too many of them seem to have the attention span of a gnat.
