College Textbooks? Sports Trophies? T-shirt collections? My wife and I have already 'stuffed' them

Stuff it: Millennials nix their parents’ treasures.    (Washington Post, 3/27/2015)

To make matters worse, young adults don’t seem to want their own college textbooks, sports trophies or T-shirt collections, still entombed in plastic containers at their parents’ homes.

Why would anyone want to keep this stuff in the first place?

Seems to me that too many people are living in outsized houses.  They have more space than they know what to do with, which is why all this junk accumulates.

My wife and I have lived in a 1950s-era 3-bedroom ranch for 28 years.  It's built on a slab.  (Yeah, that's right, no basement.)  It has an attic crawl space -- useless, for all practical purposes.  The closets are small.  In fact, there hasn't been room for my clothes in the 'master bedroom' closet since 1989.

We quickly learned that when you purchase an item, especially one that takes up space, you donate something up in return.

As a result, our 2 sons aren't all that into 'stuff'.  All those grade school soccer trophies, for example, were tossed out more than 10 years ago.