My reason for sink holes is........

After being terrified that Pinellas county was rapidly approaching a piece of Swiss cheese, I sat down (cautiously) and thought about it fairly rationally.   It is no wonder that the ground is giving way!  Have you taken inventory of the contents of your house recently?  I haven't been here long, I have more room than I have ever had in my entire life and then some, and apparently my house is too small!  I took stock of just one room and scared myself out of 10 years of growth.  On every square inch of shelf space there is a knick knack that I just had to have as a memento of something or other, or an entirely useless piece of glassware, candle stick, cute animal figure, Russian doll set (and they HAVE to be all unpacked and lined up apparently) and even a clay model of the Loch Ness monster!  Really?  If my shelves are groaning under the weight of all this stuff, what must the house itself be doing?  Buckling at the corners, and generally trying its best to stay upright!   No wonder the ground is giving way.....it's just not strong enough to hold everything up.   Then there's the dust factor.  I know everyone thinks that dust cannot be heavy...after all it floats around aggravating the socks off everyone, and causing nasal passages to swell up and get blocked, but when it settles on all the cutsie bits and pieces that fill every corner, it's just got to add to the general weight.  I wonder if it's possible to seal the house, attach a huge vacuum cleaner to a small hole, and turn it on max.   Would that suck out all the dust?  Knowing my luck, I would find myself flattened against the wall hanging on for dear life, while all my china figurines etc just sat there smiling.  And that's another thing.  Who was the well meaning chump who told us to go paperless?  It's just not going to happen, people.  The proportion of useless mail that my long suffering mail lady has to stuff into my mail box most days is unbelievable.  Not only are all my shelves filled with junk, but now every other semi flat surface, table, bed, chest of drawers, is piled high with unwanted papers.  Don't tell me to use my recycling bin - I do!  But that's the first thing to get filled, usually on the day after it has been emptied.  So that leaves 6 more days of stuff to accumulate.  My shredder is on overload, and I use more shredder oil than I ever thought possible.   And the house groans on.......  I do not want to hear about closets, either.  There is a fine line between being proud as punch that some clothes still fit after 25 years, and sporting myself as an example to all and sundry as a receptacle for out of date fashion.  Bell bottoms and a hippie shirt!  Really?  Hot pants?  What was I thinking?  So there's another hundred or so pounds of useless weight filling just one of my closets.   I do try, really I do.  I take stuff to the Good Will, I put out boxes and boxes for charity pick ups, and still the stuff comes in.  And the house groans on.....