Do you throw away old things?

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I've been thinking. Sounds trite but I have. What I have been thinking about are people and things. New things. Both are good subjects at any time and in act very much connected to each other. Most new things are worshiped today and because of a skewness in the human mind, most old things, except in a small minority of people, are not given too much attention. The prevailing attitude is that old things, even if they are not very old, have to be discarded because people want to feel they are progressive and up to date. People want to be regarded as sophisticated, as if sophistication is something desirable. What really is disturbing is the fact that this attitude to the new has become a religion. It applies to almost everything we see around us, in homes, in clothes, in furniture, in behaviour, in attitudes to life and so on. To give you an indicator of what I'm talking about, I met a young rather well-educated woman (if you can rely on a series of degrees as being a reasonable indicator of being educated) who in the course of a conversation said to me that she never wore an evening dress twice. Once used it became old and needed to be discarded, mainly because people would recognise it if it was worn again. I thought how ridiculous to hold such foolish notions, and I told her rather bluntly that she had more money than brains. However as time goes by I hear and see more and more of that kind of thing being practised. I wonder how many of you still practised this sort of thing, discard the old welcome the new, in your life. We may feel continuous change is an important part of the newer cultures to which we belong. But there is a lot more that we have to learn; like learning to appreciate the things we have, caring for them not being over influenced by contemporary postures, being thankful for small mercies and living within our means.