Do we learn from our parents

or do we just do the same thing to our kids... Mom's been cleaning out Buby's house, I come here I clean out here.. how many pencils does one person need 742.. about a hundred in each room in case we need to write something down with our 534 scraps of paper even though we have these great things called cordless phones and can walk to where ever a writing instrument is. And rulers.. ya know those free ones...chuck em cause you have 15 rulers in a drawer and you won't be running short unless perhaps you are collecting them to measure the circumference of you house with out measuring tape...
Sheesh.... at this point in my life I toss stuff of my own and reflect if its too much like my parents but apparently 20 years down the line I'll be collecting writing instruments in case of a cold war and I need to trade them for cigarette.