Recycling

Mrs. Ipsa is a recycler.  If things were up to me stuff that I didn't have a use for anymore, would go in the trash and get hauled to the dump.  Not so with the wife.  Plastic, steel, cardboard and glass get dutifully washed and bagged and stored in the back room.  I understand that recycling reduces landfill space and is therefor somehow environmentally beneficial.  I just don't see how keeping all this crap in my house is helping anybody.