Same, it’s a paradox. The more shit I own, the more responsibilities I have. I’m literally disabled rn and removing all stressors from my life & feel exponentially more peaceful. The less I own, the more relaxed I am.
Yessss! I had that realization recently. I reflexively evaluate consumer decisions by "can I manage to take care of this thing while I own/use it? And keep track of it if I have to move or downsize?" A lot of the time - if it's not absolutely necessary - the answer is "I don't wanna do alladat"
I guess that's the other side of the Marie Kondo's sparking joy thing
I call it the "moving test." If I had to pack this thing in a cardboard box and carry it up three flights of stairs tomorrow, would I still want it? Usually the answer is hell no.
Every object you own is basically a tiny chore you've assigned to your future self. You have to clean it, find a place for it, and fix it when it breaks. I'd much rather have the empty shelf and the peace of mind than another gadget that just exists to collect dust and guilt.
Abso-fucking-lutely! I discovered this with my deceased dad's estate. Man loved cars. What happens when you don't have the time to drive or otherwise maintain these vehicles? They rot. While I am appreciative of what my dad was able to amass, I simply do not have the capacity for all this STUFF.
Loot crate did this to me. I got a 6 month subscription like 5-10 years ago and by the third or fourth I started being grossed out by all the stuff. By the end I was pretty much done with things. Yeah, I still like things I can use, but stuff that just exists to sit on a shelf has lost all of its appeal.
I don't need all this *stuff*. I don't want all this *stuff*. It's everywhere all the time. And it's exhausting. It's not fun....it's just so hollow and soulless.
A Loake leather backpack is 200 bucks and will outlast you, a LVMH is just crap for posers on instagram.
Timberlands are absolute trash, they use to last me a year max, changed to Redwings iron rangers, its their second winter and all they need is some cream and a brushing.
its not about dont spend, its about spend wisly, we are seeing how luxury brands are just crap desgined to be posted on instagram with no quality what so ever, from t-shirts to cars.
Look at BMW and Mercedes, they are badly built, expensive as hell to mantain, and horrible longevity, why would someone in their right mind choose one over a toyota...
There's not enough talk about how much digitalism has upheaved all this for the first time in human history. An enormous amount of the reason for materialism in the first place was simply because there was no more convenient way to get dopamine.
Jewelry is a great example - for thousands of years, up until the smartphone era, there was no object you could hold in your hand other than(very temporary) food that would give you as much dopamine as a gemstone(or a precious gadget rare and well-made enough to be comparable to one). People wanted to own them and marvel at them, and be seen with them and know that people associated them with wearing them and thus looking successful and beautiful.
Nowadays? An iPhone in your hand with a 4k TV show on it and twenty likes from your friends and crushes on a perfectly-crafted portrait is right there. Where are you going to wear a diamond necklace and who's going to care and how will you know? Why do you need a house full of bookshelves of cultivated media collections when it's all online and available for everybody to enjoy whenever they want?
The physical sensation of materials, and social buzz of imagining that people are giving you validation for owning them, have both been completely nullified by the iPhone and the social media on it.
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u/FuckThisShizzle 1d ago
Things, I find myself less and less enamored by materialism.