Don't throw your money away on products if you can help it.

[LukkyKnight]

I know, you all like your stuff, right? Well, after you have enough to eat, money is best spent on experience(s). If you just acquire stuff, ultimately you have to obtain remote storage for it, or build a bigger house, then you have people over to show 'em your new stuff, right?

Why not invite them over to share in building the house, build a memory and some knowledge at the same time? Get the experience, not the stuff. You don't need stuff, you've got stuff, stuff is not the end, it's the means.

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[Wiggles]

But, Lukky... I like stuff!

 

[LukkyKnight]

Stuff is nothing.

Stuff gets dusty.

People are what counts. If you're going to take a vacation you don't need to have the motorhome sit out behind the house the other 52 weeks... stuff messes with your Chi.

The only reason for stuff is to share an experience.

 

[MorgaineLaFay]

I hate stuff.

It's clutter.

Messes with my head.

 

[Guest]

We don't wear clothes.

<=== See?

 

[riff]

I like stuff. It's what the world is made of. But it's just stuff.

I hear ya.

 

[LukkyKnight]

I hate stuff.

It's clutter.

Messes with my head.

Clutter is also really a strange thing... it's both a cause and an effect. Dealing with your clutter is one of the most amazing cleansing experiences you can have. You can't "deal" with it by putting it in the closet, though, you have to actually DEAL with it... take some to the Salvation Army, throw some away, sell some, give some to a friend in need, but deal with it and FEEL the energy which was focused there as it's freed to contribute to your life.

It's freakin amazing. Stuff is not all that the folks from Madison Avenue have promised, it's much, much worse.

 

[Private Vasquez]

I like to take my stuff with me when I experience things.

 

[estevie]

I have entirely too much stuff!

 

[MorgaineLaFay]

I'm the Queen of Dealing sugar I'm constantly giving things away. Donating. Throwing stuff away. Lightening my load, so to speak. It actually helps me think clearer. Having less stuff...

 

[tortoise]

Clutter is also really a strange thing... it's both a cause and an effect. Dealing with your clutter is one of the most amazing cleansing experiences you can have. You can't "deal" with it by putting it in the closet, though, you have to actually DEAL with it... take some to the Salvation Army, throw some away, sell some, give some to a friend in need, but deal with it and FEEL the energy which was focused there as it's freed to contribute to your life.

It's freakin amazing. Stuff is not all that the folks from Madison Avenue have promised, it's much, much worse.

You're starting to sound awfully feng shui here.

Not that there's anything WRONG with that...

 

[LukkyKnight]

In a previous life I was the Uberfeng of the Shui province.

 

[Starfish]

Stuff I'll never ever ever ever ever stop buying.


Plants
Art Supplies
Pet Toys
Pots to grow some of my plants in
Fish
More Plants
Seeds
Pot
Fishtanks
Lanterns
Blank CDs for Dave with Jewel Cases so he can record Dead Shows for me to listen to
Nag Champa Soap and oil
Pencils and Pens
Paper




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[Saint Peter]

Colorado is in a drought and having one of the worst fire seasons anyone can remember. The local news was inteviewing a couple while they were packing the car during evacuation. "Leave whatever we can buy" the man shouted.

Lots of stuff has gone up in smoke. As long as the loved ones and pets and pictures make it I can replace the rest. Replace it with cooler nicer stuff.

 

[Starfish]

Saint Peter's post reminded me that most people here won't ever have to abandon most of their belonings in their lifetime, but it is so common an occurance in natural disaster situations. It is unfortunate but very common actually.

I am glad that I learned about what material possesions really mean at a young age. It helps me cope without things.
We lived for six months in a furnished house and our entire household was put in storage. At the end of six months, they went to go find our stuff and all they could find was a hutch, two chairs, our dining room and kitchen table and the benches to it. Otherwise it was all gone. We had to start over, but it was no big deal. We still went hiking and camping as a family that summer and had loads of fun.

 

[wizbit9]

i want experiences over materialistic things any day of the week.

i have scrap books for the memories and the clutter just gets thrown.

what i need is in my head and in my heart and not in the spare room collecting dust

 

[LukkyKnight]

Stuff just needs dusting, or replacing, or insuring. There are so many better ways to use your money.

Don't throw it away - on stuff - think about what you're doing with it.

 

[bored1]

I once had a house in the burbs, It was full of stuff, stuff that was easily attained because of easy credit. Its all gone now, the house and all the stuff. I dont miss the stuff, although I sometimes miss the house. I learned that stuff has no meaning and that relationships within families is more important than all the stuff in the world.

 

[LukkyKnight]

For that, bored, you deserve to pick your own title.

Have we failed to give you a 1000 post thread?

 

[sufisaint]

Every 5 years

I basically get rid of al my stuff....sell it...give it away....throw it away......all I keep are my dogs, my plants, my candles, and anything that i have created, my art , my weapons, and my harley......Doing it again soon.....

 

[Guest]

 

[LukkyKnight]

Nope. If the experience of listening to/using what's on it enriches you, go for it. If the act of shopping for it, or giving it to another, adds to your depth, go for it. Don't buy it to have, though, don't buy stuff - buy experiences.

Experiences don't cause clutter, and dust bunnies never fuck beneath 'em.

 

[Guest]

 

[sufisaint]

The only thing we truly own are our feelings anyway, even toughts are really not our own, the language and imagery are borrowed, but our love, happiness, sadness, lonileness our are to expolre, enjoy, learn from and share......

 

[Sillyman]

What stuff I do have is prescious to me. The thought of throwing it away is almost stomach churning to me. I'm not one to hold onto crap for any stretch of time. My stuff is things that lead to experiences or are of pratical value.