Meeting with Writing Friend

I just finished my meeting with my writing friend. I told her this story about my discovery of Oulipo techniques which were an omisson of somehting to force creative constraint. I told her about my own method when I was in high school. I used to collect junk off the floor, pens, pencils, all kinds of stuff that I would break down and make into things. I'd write stories about these characters with no names and create a plot for them to go through or a foe for them to fight. I collected these items in a box and one day I brought the bunch of the unused ones with me to school. The problem was that I created nothing from them. I had everything, but could make nothing. That's the problem with too much stuff. If you have a little, you have to get creative with your work. And those stories or things I made when I hardly had any stuff was always the best. I see the same with video games. Developers are forced to make creative designs because they lack the funds or the technology to do something. It's the same way with writing. Sometimes less is more.