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Wow, that's a load of items. Is it normal to own so much stuff in US or that's a what a typical well-off person accumulates over their life time?

Duanemclemore 1y ago
He owned three adjacent homes in the Hollywood Hills. He ran his film production company and musical endeavors out of them. So these aren't the random collectibles of a hoarder, the vast majority of this stuff would have been used for these business purposes.
jazzyjackson 1y ago
You see how big houses get in America? All the houses are FULL of stuff Relevant George Carlin bit on the subject: https://youtu.be/JLoge6QzcGY https://youtu.be/JLoge6QzcGY?
chneu 1y ago
Americans often have to rent multiple storage units to store their stuff. This happens after their garages begin to overflow with junk. Id say like 75% of Americans don't use their garage for their car, it's just storage for shit. A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities. It's extremely common to see run-down caravans parked beside houses or in the driveway, too. It's crazy. People buy em, never use em, and then they rot. Same with boats and off road vehicles; sitting there rotting at storage facilities or next to the garage. Americans own an INSANE amount of stuff. I'm American and I find it crazy how much shit people own. Remember that per capita Americans are the highest consumers in the world and it's not even close. It has to do with the American exceptionalism thinking. That Americans are special and therefore more entitled to over consume. Manifest Destiny baby, god chose America! The extreme capitalism in America reinforces this mentality. The amount of crap an American owns is a status symbol. A lot of Americans are proud to own stuff they never use. In the spring time, when folks start opening their garages, i like to see how much winter junk people have accumulated. A month or two ago it was comedic watching people move stuff out of their garages to reorganize so they could then put it all back.
- d0gsg0w00f 1y ago
  > It has to do with the American exceptionalism thinking. That Americans are special and therefore more entitled to over consume. This is quite a leap, and you're giving people too much credit for "consumption as a guiding principle". Most people just have extra income and are bombarded with messages about how something will make their lives better. They try it out. They're stuck with it.
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  - chneu 1y ago
    They try it out because Americans love owning stuff as status symbols. Gotta keep up with the Joneses with our "grass fed" steak dindins, 3rd truck, boat, rv and garage full of junk. We are hyper-capitalist and we use the manifest destiny/conquerer mentality to justify it. Advertising drives this mentality into people from a young age to the point they don't even realize it. The word "deprogramming" might be apt here. Even if one doesn't consciously think about or admit this, it is everywhere in American culture, especially in rural-cosplaying folks. If someone isn't aware of it, and working to check their consumption, then they're probably engaging in it, unfortunately. Americans have endless excuses for our overconsumption because it allows us to either justify or ignore the consequences of our actions. Even mentioning overconsumption will result in many Muricans getting mad because you're challenging their privilege. A really great example of this is the typical american's reaction to environmental causes. Look at how american media portrays environmentalists and reacts with pure vitriol most of the time (fortunately this has changed quite a lot in recent years but it's still pretty bad). Environmentalists challenge the privileged mindset of american culture. What did american culture do? We pumped up beef and dairy production while portraying it as "the natural way", "the carnivore diet", the "caveman diet" etc as if overconsumption is how it should be and has always been. Then American culture portrayed vegans/vegetarians as anemic weaklings, which is basically an attack on people challenging the privilege to overconsume. Make the enemy look bad instead of addressing the issue. Once one starts to look for this stuff they'll see it is everywhere in US culture. I grew up in a town of 500 people on a farm/ranch in the US West. I was very conservative. I bought into all this shit for 20+ years. Then I traveled and talked to people outside the US with different viewpoints. It is really obvious how bad it is in the US once you start to pay attention and stop buying into this privileged mindset. We can't begin to improve this until we can even acknowledge it. There are many forces in this country working to prevent people from even acknowledging this. Look at conservative media, especially. It's suuuuper obvious.
Hilift 1y ago
No, not this much, and for one person. Lynch was a bit of a mystery. The table router, saws, woodshop tools, the cabinet making books. Lynch was sometimes hands on for productions. A lot of the furniture is cool too. Like 1950's period pieces, but custom made. He had four wives and one partner (Isabella Rossellini) and four children. We probably never saw the real David Lynch. A lot of the stuff could just be accumulations from a lot of shopping trips. "Eraserhead was finally finished in 1976. Lynch said that not a single reviewer of the film understood it as he intended." Lynch produced Eraserhead on a shoestring budget ($100k) along with Sissy Spacek and her husband, Jack Fisk.
rxtexit 1y ago
Yes, as an American who is an absolute minimalist, people here own so much junk. It is not just well off people, it is practically everyone. Everyone has an enormous amount of junk. Well off people just have more pricey junk.
TrackerFF 1y ago
Important to keep in mind that Lynch was a filmmaker, musician, and artist - and probably 2/3 of the listings are items from his studios.

Duanemclemore 1y ago

He owned three adjacent homes in the Hollywood Hills. He ran his film production company and musical endeavors out of them. So these aren't the random collectibles of a hoarder, the vast majority of this stuff would have been used for these business purposes.

jazzyjackson 1y ago

You see how big houses get in America? All the houses are FULL of stuff Relevant George Carlin bit on the subject: https://youtu.be/JLoge6QzcGY https://youtu.be/JLoge6QzcGY?

chneu 1y ago

Americans often have to rent multiple storage units to store their stuff. This happens after their garages begin to overflow with junk. Id say like 75% of Americans don't use their garage for their car, it's just storage for shit. A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities. It's extremely common to see run-down caravans parked beside houses or in the driveway, too. It's crazy. People buy em, never use em, and then they rot. Same with boats and off road vehicles; sitting there rotting at storage facilities or next to the garage. Americans own an INSANE amount of stuff. I'm American and I find it crazy how much shit people own. Remember that per capita Americans are the highest consumers in the world and it's not even close. It has to do with the American exceptionalism thinking. That Americans are special and therefore more entitled to over consume. Manifest Destiny baby, god chose America! The extreme capitalism in America reinforces this mentality. The amount of crap an American owns is a status symbol. A lot of Americans are proud to own stuff they never use. In the spring time, when folks start opening their garages, i like to see how much winter junk people have accumulated. A month or two ago it was comedic watching people move stuff out of their garages to reorganize so they could then put it all back.

d0gsg0w00f 1y ago
> It has to do with the American exceptionalism thinking. That Americans are special and therefore more entitled to over consume. This is quite a leap, and you're giving people too much credit for "consumption as a guiding principle". Most people just have extra income and are bombarded with messages about how something will make their lives better. They try it out. They're stuck with it.
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- chneu 1y ago
  They try it out because Americans love owning stuff as status symbols. Gotta keep up with the Joneses with our "grass fed" steak dindins, 3rd truck, boat, rv and garage full of junk. We are hyper-capitalist and we use the manifest destiny/conquerer mentality to justify it. Advertising drives this mentality into people from a young age to the point they don't even realize it. The word "deprogramming" might be apt here. Even if one doesn't consciously think about or admit this, it is everywhere in American culture, especially in rural-cosplaying folks. If someone isn't aware of it, and working to check their consumption, then they're probably engaging in it, unfortunately. Americans have endless excuses for our overconsumption because it allows us to either justify or ignore the consequences of our actions. Even mentioning overconsumption will result in many Muricans getting mad because you're challenging their privilege. A really great example of this is the typical american's reaction to environmental causes. Look at how american media portrays environmentalists and reacts with pure vitriol most of the time (fortunately this has changed quite a lot in recent years but it's still pretty bad). Environmentalists challenge the privileged mindset of american culture. What did american culture do? We pumped up beef and dairy production while portraying it as "the natural way", "the carnivore diet", the "caveman diet" etc as if overconsumption is how it should be and has always been. Then American culture portrayed vegans/vegetarians as anemic weaklings, which is basically an attack on people challenging the privilege to overconsume. Make the enemy look bad instead of addressing the issue. Once one starts to look for this stuff they'll see it is everywhere in US culture. I grew up in a town of 500 people on a farm/ranch in the US West. I was very conservative. I bought into all this shit for 20+ years. Then I traveled and talked to people outside the US with different viewpoints. It is really obvious how bad it is in the US once you start to pay attention and stop buying into this privileged mindset. We can't begin to improve this until we can even acknowledge it. There are many forces in this country working to prevent people from even acknowledging this. Look at conservative media, especially. It's suuuuper obvious.

Hilift 1y ago

No, not this much, and for one person. Lynch was a bit of a mystery. The table router, saws, woodshop tools, the cabinet making books. Lynch was sometimes hands on for productions. A lot of the furniture is cool too. Like 1950's period pieces, but custom made. He had four wives and one partner (Isabella Rossellini) and four children. We probably never saw the real David Lynch. A lot of the stuff could just be accumulations from a lot of shopping trips. "Eraserhead was finally finished in 1976. Lynch said that not a single reviewer of the film understood it as he intended." Lynch produced Eraserhead on a shoestring budget ($100k) along with Sissy Spacek and her husband, Jack Fisk.

rxtexit 1y ago

Yes, as an American who is an absolute minimalist, people here own so much junk. It is not just well off people, it is practically everyone. Everyone has an enormous amount of junk. Well off people just have more pricey junk.

TrackerFF 1y ago

Important to keep in mind that Lynch was a filmmaker, musician, and artist - and probably 2/3 of the listings are items from his studios.