re: the owning of "too many things", I don't even know how to begin comprehending where he was coming from with that statement.
Maybe he sees me as parent-dependent highschool kid, and not someone furnishing houses and apartments for the past decade.
He actually told me that I should get rid of my camping gear because I hadn't used it in the past year. Um, hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars of gear (accumulated over the past two decades) that you simply don't purge because of the one year rule and say "I'll just buy new stuff".
He's... he's the biggest bullshitter in Bullshit Town, USA. He has to have an authoritative opinion on everything. And if you counter with information from a respected book or college education, he'll simply shake his head and dis book-knowledge. He's got the life experience, yo.
He makes me so mad, but he also has a very laid back work ethic (comp time exists, even if it's a no-no in the employee handbook) and he keeps the upper ranks out of my face and business. But I also have to research everything he tells me to make sure it's true.