Purging Your Stuff Is the New Conspicuous Consumption

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-10/marie-kondo-tidying-inside-the-world-of-konmari

by hhs • 7 years ago

2 2 7 years ago

i did something like this about 2 years ago, i realised a few things, first that almost all my at home entertainment comes from a single source, my laptop, i had little need for anything more than that.

i also realised that many of the things id buy were impulse buys that in many cases never got used or if they did they didnt actually provide much function, i was often buying them more for the act of buying them than anything else, little toys/gadgets/trinkets that never got used and ended up sat in drawers or boxes and such

so following these idea i decided id get rid of all the things that served no real purpose and going forward would only buy things that would be regularly used and provide something the things i already have dont.

currently aside from clothes and the like i own a laptop, an eGPU, a monitor, keyboard/mouse/gamepad, gaming chair, set of speakers, an amp, headphones and my mobile phone, thats literally everything, i dont even own furniture and such as i just rent places that come with all that, it makes for a much simpler life and makes it infinitely easier to move when needed

brudgers• 7 years ago

i was often buying them more for the act of buying them than anything else

Shopping is just the current idiom over culturally ingrained hunter-gatherer behavior.

Purging Your Stuff Is the New Conspicuous Consumption

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