If I ask the google for 'stuff', here's what the first page of results looks like 27xii25:
stuff Merriam-Webster
stuff wiktionary
stuff tesaurus.com
stuff Cambridge Dictionary
stuff sesquiotica
...everything is stuff. From the fabric of the universe to the moral mettle of a person, from the real good stuff to some pretty bad stuff (which are sometimes the same thing), from specific senses in the clothing business and the building trades, through whatever a feature writer or reviewer wants to sound especially authentically thing-y ("this is compelling stuff"), to the most hand-wavey generalizations, there is nothing that is not, in some sense, stuff. Stuff is all the stuff that is in the set of all sets. All that matters and all that is matter is stuff. It is the alpha and omega of mass objects.But stop for a moment. Why stuff? Why this word consisting of three voiceless consonants — a stop and two fricatives — all said at the front of the mouth plus one neutral central vowel? Why three letters with crossbars, one snake, and one cup (not running over)? Its countable counterpart, thing, has ascenders and descenders, crosses and dots — all the things — and covers the length of the oral cavity, closing with a voiced nasal ringing like a soft gong.
A collector is almost by definition surrounded by stuff. My own life trails a comet tail (tale?) of stuff, exemplified in materials at Liberty Tool, in Liberty ME:
Liberty Tool Album at Flickr and photo album from Thomaston ME purchased at Liberty Tool