Anyone who has read the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", better known as Bladerunner by Phillip K. Dick will be familiar with the term "kipple", but you may not be aware of it in your everyday life..
Well.. kipple is everywhere - it may be in small doses, but it is there. If you leave it, it multiplies, just like in the book! The scary thing about kipple is its amazing power to claim other items, and turn them into kipple. A useful item simply needs to be surrounded by useless kipple, and you may never look at that item in the same way, you glance over it, not straight outright ignoring it, but merely less interested in it as you can't see past the pile of useless items to judge its value by itself. In this way, new kipple is born, and if you have any old attachment to the previous usefulness of that item, you won't be able to bring yourself to throw it out, thus strengthening the kipple - you can't bring yourself to kill some of it.
Anyhow, this must be short. I am literally surrounded by kipple, and am in the process of reclaiming useful items from its clutches, and ridding my apartment of as much of it as I can.