Life without lots of stuff

Good on you Dr house. I tend to try get rid of most stuff I don't need although don't have mega high value items!

Also to those changing this into a marriage thread... You could probably have half your assets stripped without being married if you've been together a long period. Can spot the bitter men a mile off!

One thing I do need to get rid of is the mass or clothes I don't wear/use.
 
The Craig said:
Also to those changing this into a marriage thread... You could probably have half your assets stripped without being married if you've been together a long period. Can spot the bitter men a mile off!
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If you are a pushover I suppose :p I wouldn't have anyone get a penny out of me unless I wanted it.
 
i do have stuff but i'm not a hoarder and never buy anything that i dont intend to use
i sell stuff on, give it away or dump it, great to not have a lot of crap lying around
 
Dr House said:
Completely random threat.

er, one watch, one car, one nice pen and the clothes I actually need and a couple of pairs of decent shoes and nothing else.

Anyone else done soemthing similer?
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Yea, except thats just normal for me, I have a friend who recently purchased a a watch that he wouldnt even tell me how much it cost, it was an Omega something to do with the Spectre movie, its like £4k+ I think.

To me thats just a bit too materialistic.
 
Vidar said:
It's funny how as someone who has never had much in the way of material things I struggle to imagine why anyone would want to give nice things up.

I'd kill for some actual affluence.
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It's worth mentioning that many who here have said they don't own terrific amounts are relatively well off (guess I could include myself here). There is a difference between not having the means to buy certain things, and having the means and choosing not to.

We live in a consumer society, and everything revolves around choice. If you've got choice, you've got freedom. Perhaps that's where a lot of the satisfaction comes from. I can see that it could be a bind though when you aren't in a position to make that choice.
 
Johno please? said:
Yea, except thats just normal for me, I have a friend who recently purchased a a watch that he wouldnt even tell me how much it cost, it was an Omega something to do with the Spectre movie, its like £4k+ I think.

To me thats just a bit too materialistic.
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I think we should ask Dr House which watch he wears and what car he owns before we get too carried away :p
 
Fusion said:
It's worth mentioning that many who here have said they don't own terrific amounts are relatively well off (guess I could include myself here). There is a difference between not having the means to buy certain things, and having the means and choosing not to.

We live in a consumer society, and everything revolves around choice. If you've got choice, you've got freedom. Perhaps that's where a lot of the satisfaction comes from. I can see that it could be a bind though when you aren't in a position to make that choice.
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Amen to that! I'm not particularly struggling at the moment I'm working nights and making a little bit of money, getting some help with rent and council tax etc but me and my family are warm and fed and my kids want for almost nothing. I can't take them on holidays, my two have never been further away than Grannies for a week which isn't a proper holiday. Simply because I haven't had the funds. You're right, when you have no means to make good choices you can only make the best of a bad situation. I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me but there have genuinely been times in my life where I've literally had holes in the bottom of my shoes and no coat during winter and having only £20 that's taken me two weeks or more to save up; getting to the shop, finding I'm in the familiar either or scenario and coming away with nothing because I feel guilty for spending it on myself when my kids need stuff too.

Yeah things aren't that bad now, but for once in my life I would genuinely love to be able to go into town and go to town on the things I both genuinely need and actually want without feeling guilty. Yeah I've got a spare few hundred quid at the moment that I'm planning on using to upgrade my PC a little, it's been 5 years, we've got everything we need for the baby, kids birthday presents and Christmas presents are sorted and yet I find myself feeling incredibly guilty about spending £400 on myself.
 
The only quality things I own are what is most important to me which is music.

So whilst I don't really own any nice clothes, watches, a car, a house ( I rent) a home cinema or all the other stuff people gravitate towards, I do own a very nice high end Hi-Fi and large vinyl collection that means the world to me.

I don't really care about anything else in my little world but music is essential and the playback there of. Hence I couldn't be doing with your poxy little bluetooth speaker :p
 
Vidar said:
I can't take them on holidays, my two have never been further away than Grannies for a week which isn't a proper holiday. Simply because I haven't had the funds.

Yeah I've got a spare few hundred quid at the moment that I'm planning on using to upgrade my PC a little, it's been 5 years, we've got everything we need for the baby, kids birthday presents and Christmas presents are sorted and yet I find myself feeling incredibly guilty about spending £400 on myself.
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Could get a nice little UK break for that, book a little cottage, coastal, lakes etc :)
 
Is this the chap who got divorced, lost his massive house, buys new supercars every other week and got some random woman pregnant before moving to St Albans to become a doctor?

Because that's some pro-grade narrative right there.
 
Whilst I certainly wouldn't say I have too much stuff I've naturally accumulated quite a few things over the years that I would say I longer use or need. I tend to procrastinate and mull over most of my purchases rather than spontaneously getting nice things. Personally I don't see the point in thinking about decluttering or living a simple life. If I have the space and cash and I can justify getting something I will.
 
Uther said:
Well I've been with my mrs since 1988 and married since 1993 so I'm not sure that's entirely true.
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My parents were together and married since the late 80s too, and growing up they were always the ones who would be together forever while everyone else's parents went their separate ways. Until 2 years ago when they got divorced anyway :p
 
Johno please? said:
Yea, except thats just normal for me, I have a friend who recently purchased a a watch that he wouldnt even tell me how much it cost, it was an Omega something to do with the Spectre movie, its like £4k+ I think.

To me thats just a bit too materialistic.
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Having nice things to me isn’t materialistic at all. If you have decent amount of disposable income, you save, give money to charity etc what else are you going to spend it on? Being materialistic to me is the type of person that cares more about constantly wanting to have the next thing and not enjoying what you have, cost doesn’t really have anything to do with it.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
Is this the chap who got divorced, lost his massive house, buys new supercars every other week and got some random woman pregnant before moving to St Albans to become a doctor?

Because that's some pro-grade narrative right there.
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Yes. I suspect you knew this from your stalking knowledge of the OP.
 
Similar thing has happened to me, not necessarily through choice yet now, strangely, I find myself in a much better financial position and can enjoy between 3-5 holidays a year now that I don't have as much interest in toys (with the exception of my SONOS, cars, bikes, women)......
 
Well if any of you who have rejected consumerism and yet still have tons of cash want to help me save the World by buying me a Tesla Model S P75D, go ahead, I won't say no :D
 
I don't think the OP is necessarily about rejecting consumerism :p but more about being more discerning in spending habits in respect to ending up with needless clutter, etc. potentially end up spending more money on a lesser number of things heh.
 
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