Background:
If you stay in one apartment or house for a long time, you tend to accumulate a large number of superfluous possessions.
But it’s hard to get an idea of exactly how much stuff you have.
Proposal:
Moving trucks should have a weight sensor on them to tell you how many pounds of stuff you own.
This would be like a truck weigh station, only built into the moving truck itself.
Then, you could figure out how much stuff you have by just checking the dial (Figure 2).
Fig 1: A moving truck. When you fill it up with all your worldly possessions, it could tell you how much all that stuff weighs.
Fig 2: This dial would go in the dashboard, right next to the speedometer. Possibly actual weight could be reported rather than just judgmental terms.
Conclusion:
This feature should be added to every moving van!
PROS: It’s a great way to figure out exactly how much stuff you have accumulated.
CONS: May hurt the consumer-based economy. Equipping a fleet of moving trucks with scales would add a small cost to each truck. Wouldn’t work for people who hoard extremely light items (e.g., feathers or styrofoam packing peanuts).
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