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I feel like these days, stuff is incredibly cheap and therefore it's very easy to accumulate a huge amount of it. Sure, we have out sentimental items and useful
by laurieg 4y ago
I feel like these days, stuff is incredibly cheap and therefore it's very easy to accumulate a huge amount of it. Sure, we have out sentimental items and useful tools we use everyday. But a huge amount goes un-used, sitting in boxes, closets, attics and garages waiting to be thrown away.
I try to "live small". My apartment is relatively small. I'm still wearing clothes from high-school. I still the knife, fork and spoon I bought when I moved out on my own. When something breaks I mend it, replace it or turn it into something new. I'm not a hardcore minimalist, far from it. But there is great joy in having enough.
- olivermarks 4y agoThe difference here is that until recently things used to be well made and built to last. It's easy to buy a bunch of junky tools etc that might last a few years but it sometimes amazes me how people don't understand that owning a few good quality tools that will last forever is vastly preferable to giving them away. Same is true with a lot of other things, but of course this is only relevant if you're going to use them.
- SoftTalker 4y agoDon't overlook survivorship bias. There was plenty of cheap junk being sold 50 years ago.
- antisthenes 4y agoAlso, good things still exist, they are just marketed as commercial/industrial and carry the corresponding price tag. But they will easily last 20-30+ years with good maintenance.
- prmoustache 4y agoYes. Alao furnitures. Though they are out of style I would totally accept the well made furniture my parents own than the shit we tend to buy nowadays at ikea and similar that don't last 2 moves. Problem is partner would probably not accept it.
- lrem 4y agoMom still uses grandpa's can opener. I still haven't managed to buy one that would work that well too.
- jamal-kumar 4y agoI live out of a carry on bag mostly. My stuff is pretty minimal but the heaviest things I own are the books. I have some really weird old ones too, like one for learning german from 1939 and another on how to survive an atomic bomb from 1946. Just weird shit that's hard to find and hard to let go of. I tend to like doing book trades though so it pays off on my travels.
- petre 4y agoOh, I hate moving my books. And they'd fit on a 8 meter shelf.
- jxramos 4y agoat one point I was moving a stack of books and realized I'm essentially moving thinly sheared off logs around. It was quite a visual to imagine me moving stumps of logs around the size of small UHaul boxes. That's essentially what that quantity of books felt like when divvied out into small cardboard boxes to push the load into bite sized chunks.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoIt's 2066 and a grieving 54 yr old has to figure out how to throw away boxes and boxes of their dead parent's funko pops.
- GlassKingdom 4y agoAll unopened in box.
- haupt 4y agoJust stick them with the Beanie Babies.