Anyone else just not give a fuck about nice things?

I couldn't care less about luxury shit. I'll wear anything so long as it covers all the necessary parts and isn't made for a woman. I don't give a fuck about cars. I just don't want the pieces of shit breaking down on me, so I guess I'll keep a newer car (max of 4 years old). I'd never buy new anything. Everything I get is secondhand. Especially in this economy, you can find basically new shit that was just taken out of the box for 1/2 the price of when it was "new."

But I DO care about shit like good technology. I need a big monitor and a projector and such. But fortunately, I'm a computer repair technician and I own a computer repair business so I can get stuff for really good deals. I got my projector for $275 and it's lasted me a couple of years. If I were to buy one new with those specs (even today), it would cost about $800. I was able to get my 24" Samsung SyncMaster for $100. They sell online for about $300 with tax and shipping. So even though I'm willing to spend money on technology, I never pay anywhere near full price. I got a fucking core2quad machine with 8gb of ram and a 750gb hard drive for $225 a year ago. I've never bought a new computer and I never will. The only shit I don't get secondhand is stuff like toilet paper and food (yuk!).
 


There is a lot to be said for the minimalist lifestyle. I've done a bit of traveling to less developed countries in Asia and Africa, and I've come to the conclusion that generally speaking, there is an inverse relationship to how much people have and how happy they are.
 
The only item that I "splurge" on, if it can even be considered that-apparently it is by most(based on the looks I get from people) is food.

To each his own, with regard to saving it all vs. cycling cash through the various branded echelons of marketed classes. Most of the people who live lavishly didn't get there by luck, and they know how much they need to maintain and save.

Cars: Don't like supplying funds with abnormal profits via planned obsolescence. The three-pronged star and the propeller in the sky often break because someone realized how profitable it can be to milk someone who has been programmed to keep them at any cost. Not too into that game.

Clothing:Branded clothing is necessary if you are dealing with drones who secretly need you to be dressed a certain way to do business. This is rarely a problem, because these people are not often the ones who are the outliers.

Home Furnishings: I enjoy saying fuck you to face of the tanned 45 yo blonde(wearing a navy blue pants suit, with 5 gold bangles on her wrists) staring at me on the latest piece of interior decoration junk mail that hit my door.
 
If I'm honest I would say I'm constantly at war with myself, with wanting new and shiny things and being overrun with new and shiny things. Part of my personality really enjoys simplicity and feels overwhelmed when i've got too much crap (I think I've mention my tendency to randomly purge and start throwing normal working stuff in the dumpster JUST TO GET IT OUT) but on the other hand just last night the hubby and I were talking about the frivolous things that we have bought that we were so pleased we did: the bigger car, the Giant Flat Screen (<---I'll never regret that one, why bother watching movies/tv if it's not fantastic?), the 7 thousand dollar mattress that feels like your sleeping on a cloud in heaven.... I'll never regret that stuff.

So I guess I should stick to big things and cut out the small shiny crap that I sometimes sucker myself into buying.
 
turbolapp said:
the 7 thousand dollar mattress that feels like your sleeping on a cloud in heaven.... I'll never regret that stuff.

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What kind of mattress did you get? We're getting ready for a new one, and whatever you bought sounds like the way to go.
 
Nice shit ends up tethering you to one spot. Sorta like golden shackles.

I'm a minimalist and perhaps, as I've been reading a lot of Seneca ([ame="http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Penguin-Classics-Lucius-Annaeus/dp/0140442103/"]Amazon.com: Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics) (9780140442106): Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Robin Campbell: Books[/ame]), even somewhat of a Stoic.

Nice car? I'd prefer a $1500 '95 Whatever that I don't think twice about parking on the shitty side of town or volunteering to drive it down the gravel road to the beachside with my friends. I don't care if your wet bikini bottoms are sitting on my pseudoleather and I wont throw a fit if it hails.

Nice house? I'd rather rent property for 12 months here before I hop into a loft across the world for another 12 months of wildly different experiences than my previous location. Only way I see myself buying real estate in the future is for investment, although anyone should always look at real estate as an investment that they're simply utilizing at the moment.

Nice TV/entertainment center? I don't sit on my ass and watch shit nearly enough to recreate the moviegoing experience in my living room. My 24" computer monitor will do (which doubles as a productivity center) and so will the occasional movie-outing with a girl or friends. I also, thank god, quit videogames before I left highschool. But I can see myself jumping back into them when I'm old, immortal, or incapacitated in a bed for years.

Only thing I probably don't mind investing money into are: Hobbies that develop skills, food (Whole Foods), and psychostimulants :bowdown:.

Of course, I'm 21 and I can easily live this lifestyle. I certainly don't care to criticize people who want different shit from this world.
 
People who live and spend outside there means are just foolish. You always have to reward yourself be it clothes, a car, a bottle of scotch, or just simple a better lifestyle than you grew up. In reality if you added up all the decent things that you put down on your wish list it probably doesn't add up really to that much, and I'm talking about reasonable things that would be a reward.
 
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What motivates me is getting out of debt and getting into a proper size house. Not ashamed to say so either. I am def jealous seeing what people drop their coin on and the amount of flow they are generating. But in the same thought I know spending money like that is just silly. Unless you are sitting on fucktons of cash.
 
^ Turbolapp's post reminded me that I did buy a very expensive bed, ~3k. And like she said, it does feel like you're sleeping on a cloud.

Mine is a Spring Air, most people haven't heard of them. I hadn't before I started shopping. Not top of the line but very nice indeed.
 
HardSale said:
This fucking pillow top of ours is caved in. Gotta get a new mattress too.
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That is why you don’t get a pillow top.

Buy a good solid mattress then add a separate pillow top pad. When the pillow top gets worn, you replace the pad on top, not the entire bed.
 
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