Raised by a Rat

So once upon a time, there was a mommy rat and a daddy rat. These two rats never had much when they were baby rats, so they held on to anything and everything, piling it up where ever they found room. They kept things they found. They kept things they were given. They kept things they purchased from the local rat market. Basically, anything that found it's way into their little rat hands, they found a spot to put it and kept it.

Eventually, these two rats had three baby rats. The three baby rats never had much, but they always had enough. However, they were raised by rats who kept everything and so these three baby rats too kept everything they possessed. The few times the baby rats decided to go through their things and get rid of it, the momma rat would come in, and go through everything the baby rats had put in a pile to get rid of. The momma rat would hold everything up, and say "are you sure you're never going to use this again? because you won't be able to get a new one." The momma rat would look through everything the baby rats tried to get rid of, and put the majority of it back into the baby rats' habitat.

These three baby rats all grew up. But in growing up, they learned to hang on to everything. In fact, the youngest rat, the girl rat has all of her toys from when she was a baby rat. She goes through her closet thinking she's going to get rid of clothes, only to put all of them back into her closet, because she never knows when she's going to use them again. She keeps things she hasn't used in years, but has lugged back and forth between her two homes for five years now, thinking, "what if I need it?" when she hasn't needed it at all.

This baby rat, that's all grown up, thinks about when she's out on her own without her momma rat. She thinks about where she'll be living and what she'll actually need to hang onto. She even thinks that maybe, just maybe, she'll be able to get rid of some of the things she has packed away for a rainy day.