I'm pointing eastward and maniacally cackling "MINIMALIST!!"
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It's like some awesome wormhole in the usual curves of thing-ownership, by which you can spend thousands of dollars on new shiny things and still not own any more than you did when you started.
I think this line sort of sums up why minimalism fits you as a philosophy - some people would shudder in horror at the idea of spending thousands of dollars and not ending up with more stuff to show for it. But I have always been a fan of quality, and that's really what you're talking about. You do have "more" if you count quality as "stuff". Which I'm guessing you don't want to. :)
BTW, it reminded me of something I once read about being a preppy - basically the example given was that a preppy would wear a pretty glass necklace, but never fake pearls. Because by wearing fake pearls it implied that you wanted real pearls but couldn't afford them, whereas maybe you wanted the glass necklace in its own right. I think there is a certain minimalism in that - electing to go only for the authentic, no wasting time, space or energy on faking stuff. Who knew that preppies and minimalists overlapped?
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It's like some awesome wormhole in the usual curves of thing-ownership, by which you can spend thousands of dollars on new shiny things and still not own any more than you did when you started.
I think this line sort of sums up why minimalism fits you as a philosophy - some people would shudder in horror at the idea of spending thousands of dollars and not ending up with more stuff to show for it. But I have always been a fan of quality, and that's really what you're talking about. You do have "more" if you count quality as "stuff". Which I'm guessing you don't want to. :)
BTW, it reminded me of something I once read about being a preppy - basically the example given was that a preppy would wear a pretty glass necklace, but never fake pearls. Because by wearing fake pearls it implied that you wanted real pearls but couldn't afford them, whereas maybe you wanted the glass necklace in its own right. I think there is a certain minimalism in that - electing to go only for the authentic, no wasting time, space or energy on faking stuff. Who knew that preppies and minimalists overlapped?