YO RENT SHIT!

I want stores where you rent stuff to come back.
I want those stores to come back because they'd have to have quality stuff in them because they wouldn't just be pawning it off on some sorry-ass consumer who bought it in a frenzy and then forgot it when it wasn't new or because they only needed or wanted it briefly.
I want to see a study on how frequently people even touch the stuff they have in their houses.
The number of private storage facilities in the United States is fucking nuts and tragic. We are cripplingly burdened with cheap, broken, forgotten stuff.
I want to not throw out all my stuff like everyone else every time I move.
I want to have the community those bike collective hippies have, but for all kinds of stuff. I want mad neighborliness to be felt because the waffle iron's been used by everyone you know.
I watched a video of Jacques Pepin making a French omelet and talking about how he had the perfect omelet pan when he was younger. The pan, he explained, was only perfect because he ate so many omelets. The cast iron was horrifically sticky at the start; the flux of grease made it what it was. But eventually Pepin's diet improved and his pan got sticky and he's too old to be breaking in pans. That pan is dead. But what if there were institutions to pass down pans, to ensure a gloriously greasy lineage for all time? Remember the bitter tears of the Toy Story toys, forgotten in their bin! Stuff wants using! Disuse is abuse!

Yo, there's much more to this I'm sure but this is all I've got for now. The essence of it is that I want to not be forced to buy stuff in the first place. I'm going for that Feng Shui thing of trying to own just a hundred objects, but it's much more political than feel good aesthetics.