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I don't know. As someone who has spent a lifetime aquiring "stuff"; I'm now getting into the idea of getting rid of everything, furniture included. All I'm doing now is realizing that after I die, my relatives are going to be tossing all this stuff into a dumpster. And I've got a pretty good collection of junk from my various hobbies: Vintage Computer gear, old VW parts, ham radios, thousands of tools, all kinds of electronic gear, and lots of rockets.A large number of them seem to be eschewing the usual get a college degree, get a job, buy a house, have a kid or two, etc, in favor of "experiences" and less "stuff"...
Having stuff made me happy, but now I kind of see it as a drag, because moving somewhere else would be a tremendous chore. Obviously there's a lot I don't want to get rid of, or I would have gotten rid of it decades ago, but I'm also realizing that unless I can box it all up into 2 or more "Pods" containers, I can never leave the house I'm in. So at least 50% of it has got to go. Some of it might be worth a few bucks on eBay, but I need to find the time to organize, photograph and get it up for sale, and then box and ship. That's almost a full-time job and I'm currently working, so, until I can walk away from my paying gig, I cannot find the time for the eBay job.
So, yeah, I think I'm with the younger generation on that one. And I never got married or had kids, so I think I'm following them on that as well -- or maybe I'm the leader of this movement and don't even realize it. The "American Dream" was a trap from the very start, which is why the divorce rate in this country is through the roof. I think too many people fall into that too quickly, get married in their 20's when they are not really ready for it, and then suffer, and realize the only way out is divorce.