ABSTRACT
It is estimated that the average lifetime use of an electric drill of the sort that many consumers own is between 6 and 20 minutes (Steffen 2007). Cars are used about one to two hours a day; the rest of the time they depreciate in value, accumulate insurance and maintenance costs, and take up increasingly limited and often quite expensive parking space. When we buy or download a season’s worth of a television series, we seldom watch the shows more than once. Arnold and Lang (2007) found that in southern California, the majority of the large (2–3 car) garages could no longer fit even a single car because they had been transformed into storage areas. There must be a better way of making use of these and the many other things we seldom use that largely add to the clutter of our already crammed homes.
