In a world where we are conditioned to always want or buy more, it can be hard to stay satisfied even when everything ia going well and you don't *need* anything. Does anyone else experience this?
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@mathpunk That is exactly my case. I hated this attitude as a child but as an adult I espouse it. 路 1 month ago
I come from a "never throw anything away if it still works" kind of family. As a kid I always wanted the newest things, the newest toys, the newest games. But as I get older I'm becoming like my parents: why bother buying new games when I'd have just as much if not more fun replaying the 200 or so games in my PS2/PS3 library? Why get a new phone when my current one still works? Why buy a new computer when the one I have still works? 路 1 month ago
Yup. I do have "a lot" of stuff, but I just don't see the point in replace/upgrade functioning stuff. Like my gaming computer from 2012 :D 路 1 month ago
I literally own quite nothing except clothes, cellphone, vintage hardware, a laptop, boots, my outdoor stuff, a bow, a crossbow some knives and small stuff not worth mentioning it. Fits all in a car. After i got divorced, i reduced everthing to a minimum. Feels good when you have not much left to loose. 路 1 month ago
BTW: This post, along with some others I've seen recently, inspired me to write a little rant about commercialism in one of my own favorite hobbies:
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Thank you! 路 1 month ago
I think it can be especially challenging for anyone who's really into "tech" media, as most of this kind of material is really hype about the new "better" products that are coming down the line. It's all designed to market new things to you and downplay the old things that may still actually be working just as well as they always did.
One way I've become more minimalist is by quitting my job and not having any income anymore. It's easier to talk myself out of buying things if I can't afford them! 馃槃 路 1 month ago
I'd love to be more minimalist, but it's hard when your partner is not, and you have kids. at one point when I was younger, all my belongings fit into a car.
"the stuff you own ends up owning you" 路 1 month ago
all the time! 路 1 month ago
It is very odd for me this sensation of "wanting or buying more". I grew up in a very, very rual part of Tennessee. I did lots of farm things and picking tobacco so things like a TV was really facinating kind of stuff for me. 路 1 month ago
I listen to The Minimalists podcast a lot. It's changed a lot of my views of what "stuff" is important. I try to spend my money more on *experiences* rather than "stuff" now. Of course, say, for skiing - I need some "stuff". But that's what makes the stuff worth it! 路 1 month ago
For me, the value of a thing is inherited from what ever activity it enables. The value of an activity in turn is how far the activity brings me toward or away from reaching some goal.
I find that it is very easy to ignore marketing when what ever they are marketing has a negative value.
I hope that helps :) 路 1 month ago