# Do kids nowadays not care about "stuff"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 23, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-kids-nowadays-not-care-about-stuff/1003239 "2024-06-23T20:16:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-kids-nowadays-not-care-about-stuff/1003239/101 "2024-07-02T21:05:01Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > Sometimes the least bad place for something to be is in the landfill Amen. My understanding is that modern landfillls are very stable, and really, is it more wasteful to leave a box of china no one wants in a landfill forever than in a closet forever? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-kids-nowadays-not-care-about-stuff/1003239/102 "2024-07-02T21:19:50Z")
The library I volunteer at uses it for a lot of things we can’t sell in the self-service bookstore, textbooks or multiple copies of something being the main thing, and we can also directly send culled library books to them. They sell them, we get a percentage of them (I don’t know what that is) and when our share comes to $50, they send us a check. We average several hundred dollars a year from them. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-kids-nowadays-not-care-about-stuff/1003239/103 "2024-07-02T21:42:59Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > > > keeping things because you might need them again sometime > > The truth of this statement depends completely on ones ability to _realistically_ judge the future need. Realistically, none of us knows what we might need in the future. Some things, of course, one can be pretty sure one won’t need in the future. The ripped underwear that doesn’t fit can go in the trash. Even in my house. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-kids-nowadays-not-care-about-stuff/1003239/104 "2024-07-02T22:32:03Z")
But what if you need a rag? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-kids-nowadays-not-care-about-stuff/1003239/105 "2024-07-02T22:52:19Z")
That’s what the ripped shirts that don’t fit are for. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-kids-nowadays-not-care-about-stuff/1003239/106 "2024-07-15T01:38:08Z")
Well, I’ll take the cylinder player if you really don’t want it… ---
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-kids-nowadays-not-care-about-stuff/1003239/107 "2024-07-17T13:01:09Z")
Thanks, Beowulff, I’ll keep it in mind. However, my family is _full_ of cranks, so I might find a taker a little closer to home. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-kids-nowadays-not-care-about-stuff/1003239.md?page=5)