In article q%Ztg.79929$1i1.15483@attbi_s72,
stshaffer wrote:

ROTFL!
Sending kids off to college fully equipped is how middle-aged people get
new furniture. And appliances.

Younger people, OTOH, get new furniture and appliances when the crap
their parents pawned off on them finally breaks :-).
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There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can
result in a fully-depreciated one.