Bill Harvey writes some books !

This BLOG is more or less about my mental process of writing THE ZEN OF BANANA BOXES. This book is a response to the de-cluttering rage. If a body practices deliberate and limited consumption, there is no need to de-clutter, right?

BUT...

I have to admit to reversing myself. For some years I was in the business of making things like display and drawer cases for collectors and museums. What are collections if not clutter of a very special sort? So I cracked open my old web-site ((Home- Museum.com) and found a few articles that speak to collecting / cluttering / hoarding / however you wish to think about it. One person's treasured collections of -for example- baseball cards might seem to another person (like his wife) and evidence of the hoarding mental illness.

SO...

...this first blog entry is a short list of other peoples insights on 'collecting' -defined however you like.

Americans have too much stuff.