Walk in Closets are the cause of this Financial Situation---Seriously!

John Rainville — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:23:00 GMT

I have been pondering almost daily this great financial debacle that we have gotten ourselves into and how it happened. Now I understand Barry Obama likes to point the finger at the GOP or George Bush, but it started way before "W" became Number 43. It seems to me that this whole mess can be traced back to Post WWII America and the advent of the "walk in closet" to entice people to move to the new "burbs" outside of town. WHAT? you say! That's LUDICROUS! Now hear me out...

Most of us real estate professionals have been through our share of homes built all different years. So think about it...the 1800's and before we had armoires and PEGS for god sake to hang your clothes on---we only had a few shirts and pants IF we had more than one! Around the turn of the century we start to see what most bueyrs perceive to be miniscule closets in homes---now you coud hang maybe up to a dozen garments! The next jump is post WWII and the advent of the @#$ walk in closet----WHAMO! the world changed!

Now we started to hoard clothes, etc that we could hide in our WALK IN closets. Remember Lucy and Desi? She was ALWAYS hiding outfits! But now the "cow was outta the barn" and we havent' looked back----until now. At the same time we went from no garage to a one car to a two car to a three car---the third bay just to hold all the crap that WON'T fit in our WALK IN CLOSETS! But WAIT WE DIDN' T STOP THERE!

Hell, I've seen homes with 1500 Bottle "wine cellars"! We've got basements and attics and now we even RENT STORAGE UNITS for all the @$%# that won't fit in our @#$% WALK IN CLOSETS! What are we NUTS! We're renting space to store stuff we should have given away or sold on E-bay! In the rural areas where I live some of the folk who live in small houses or mobile homes have had to start storing their assets on the FRONT LAWN!

Hellooooo, why not sell that old AMC Pacer or cherry Gremlin that you are saving from the junk yard to someon who might actually be able to use it? Or at least scrap them gems and let us sned it to China to be melted down and sold back to us.Ohhh, I can hear some of you already laughing out loud, but hey what's YOUR closet look like? And I know I will hear from some Al Queda wannabe that this all goes back to a damn American Carpenter!

So Barry---back off George W. and the GOP and let America know where the blame outta be.

As always, IMHO.

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Walk in Closets are the cause of this Financial Situation---Seriously!