so crazy that houses are not considered consumables. they absolutely are! does anyone believe that by living in a house we are granted an automatically self-repairing house? if not: it's a consumable, just one that is consumed, in the general case, over more than just a few minutes. there are other factors that contribute to its "consumption" other than it falling apart, being used, and otherwise needing repair. the march of technology, for example, contributes yet another factor to its decline in relatively value, at a perhaps increasingly fast rate