PIR

Sometimes, I like to say that problems we have on occasion can be considered 'problems of the idle rich'. They are the kind of problems that people have when they've got more money than sense (which I don't think usually applies to us, but sometimes -- well, yeah).

On the other hand, there really are PIR people. Take this, for example, from an article in SFGate on a guy who has a business recycling expensive kitchen accoutrements that simply don't hack it any more.

Ellen Peskin, a housewife who is renovating her Upper West Side Manhattan apartment kitchen for the second time in eight years, is donating her $25,000 custom-made glazed, cream-colored kitchen cabinets and her $5,000 four-burner Viking range to Green Demolitions. She is opening her narrow kitchen to the living and dining area, and is installing a six-burner Viking range and new teal-stained wood cabinets. Her current kitchen, she said, which will soon be removed by Green Demolitions, is an uncomfortable place to cook. "Only one person could fit in the kitchen," she said. "I would have to open the refrigerator a certain way."

I'm sure that to this sort of person, it really is intolerable, and worth the money to redo. But to me? PIR. Seriously PIR.

I'm glad that this fellow can not only make a living on such excess, but, as the article points out, do such wonderful things with his profits. Good going.