Frugal Hacks » quotes http://frugalhacks.com Good stewardship in action. How do you do it? Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:11:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Marvelous Garbage http://frugalhacks.com/2008/11/23/marvelous-garbage/ http://frugalhacks.com/2008/11/23/marvelous-garbage/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:11:34 +0000 kimc http://frugalhacks.com/?p=729 Perhaps the largest single trouble with our abundance of possessions is the fact that so many of them are owned, not because of what they are, but because of what they confer on us.  They are there, but we seldom look at them.  We have so much, but we love precious little of it for itself.  After the itch of the mind has been scratched, matter itself goes into the discard; the junkyard is the true monument of our society.  We have the most marvelous garbage the world has ever produced.  Literally.  Have you ever looked hard at a tin can?  Don't.  It will break your heart to throw it out, all silver and round and handy.  But the truth is you have to throw it out.

Bed and Board: Plain Talk About Marriage, by Robert Farrar Capon, p. 115

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