"Everything comes in a module. You just put it in and take it out and throw it away. People don't have time to repair things and make things. Automobile parts, computer parts, you name it -- everything is disposable. You take it out, throw it away and plug a new one in. There's very little repair. You know how it is easy to accumulate what you might call junk, but what might be junk to you might be somebody else's treasure. But very few people save stuff we call junk.

"When I was growing up, my mother saved everything and recycled everything two or three times. It got used and reused. Even old clothes. You'd buy one thing, a pair of pants, cut them off and make shorts out of them.

"My kids have never grown up like my wife did. She spent all of her money and half of mine to make sure they didn't grow up the way we did. You name it, from schooling to material things -- clothes, all those type of things. It had to be labels, some of the best, it had to be the best schools. There was very little wanting, which is going against my grain, but you have two of us so you compromise in there somewhere.

"Even in my profession, everything is modular. There's a lot of waste; you don't reuse anything. Everything is disposable. It's good in a way, in the medical field, because you keep everything sanitary."