non-useful
so we tend to recycle instead of throwing away. and we tend to reuse instead of recycle. so the storage space above the garage is full of empty boxes that we might reuse some day. and we do. though many of them have been there for a long time. probably because they're oddly shaped and not all that useful. the same phenomenon shows up in our stock portfolio. we actively trade stocks that are doing well. but then there are the dogs that never do anything. eventually we go through and clean everything up. both the attic and the portfolio.