Too Much?

The LA Times today features a UCLA study finding that folks in LA suffer from having too much stuff.  They just can't help themselves and overdo it, adding more than they need.  Excerpt:

About 10 years ago, Rhonda Voo's house was a mess. Shelves packed with Beanie Babies, Barbies and various other toys covered the walls in her cramped three-bedroom, one bathroom house. With three children between the ages of 5 and 11, Voo discovered that even finding a pair of shoes became a daily challenge.  "It's like all the stuff you own kind of weighs you down," said Voo, who was one of 32 families participating in a UCLA study on family life in Los Angeles. Voo wasn't the only one feeling the stress. An interdisciplinary group of researchers — archaeologists, anthropologists, psychologists and other social scientists — found that mothers who described their houses as messy or cluttered experienced higher rates of a depressed mood in the evening…

Of course, our campus could never have too much stuff put on it, could it?  UCLA would never buy more/build more than it needs, would it?  (Just asking!)

The LA Times article is at

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-family-study-20120720,0,5652177.story

Even if, in the remote possibility, we did try to buy too much, luckily we have the Regents to stop us. If we didn't absolutely need a 250-room hotel, they wouldn't OK it. Right?

And if even the Regents were to overdo it, there is a morning-after remedy: