Yup. Our housing system is dysfunctional as can be. We are like a gigantic, dysfunctional family and the worst among us, the convicted criminals, get Mommy and Daddy Congress, and Mommy/ Daddy State Legislatures, to spend up to $80,000 a year on housing, food, and medical.

In the meantime, the good kids, the ones working 2 to 3 jobs and not stealing or causing mayhem, if even ONE THING goes wrong in their lives, they have to live in their cars - if they manage to hold onto the car after a financial disaster or serious medical problem.

Our housing system REWARDS convicted criminals and punishes the good people whose only "crime" is being too poor for the rental system.

Another LPT - if you buy a NEW one of something, give an old one away or sell the old one.

Example: blankets and bedspreads. If I need/want a new bedspread I force myself to give an older one away. Having not done that for many years I have accumulated multiple comforters and bedspreads. I keep them because they have sentimental value and because I spent good money on those. But as a single person, do I really need six bedspreads? I do not.

But that's a good way to get clutter gone. Give away something every time you buy a new something, and that includes, many times, CLOTHING.

Like, I still have clothing items I bought at the thrift stores 11 years ago. Why? They still fit! But lately I've been trying to replace those old thrift store clothes as I can with new items.