Yeah, well I also want to go as far away from relatives as possible.
My parents are probably going to make me go to a college in VA though. :/. Most likely George Mason.
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Got some birthday money...what would you buy?
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Yeah, well I also want to go as far away from relatives as possible.
My parents are probably going to make me go to a college in VA though. :/. Most likely George Mason.
Haha I've had my eye on a Nikon D60 for sometime now, but don't know if I'll use it enough to justify the $$$. I've also wanted a Time Capsule since the new ones came out.
Was my birthday recently and and got some cash / gift vouchers from various family members. Idea was to get a Nikon D60 with it - would have had to add a little to it, but felt it would be worth it. Ended up spending it on DIY stuff to get things done around the house and some toys and clothes for my son. Oh well. Got some nice headphones and some Lego (yes, I just turned 31), though... And my son does love his new Cookie Monster stuff.
So I got about $325 for my birthday...what would you buy with it?
If you don't know how to spend it, why not just put it into your savings and wait until something comes up?
If you are still using some white iPod earphones, change 'em. Get yourself some Denon of Shure, and you'll be more than happy. This is the next thing I'm buying... a new pair of Shure E4C's. Geesh I hate Apple's earphones
As much as I know Apple's headphones suck, I just don't listen to music on my iPhone/iPod often enough to spend upwards of $100 on earbuds, haha.
In reality today, I would get groceries and gas and save the rest.
Back in my hoarding days, it would have been music in the form of albums and tapes back in the day, coins and stamps, model airplanes, guitars and music equipment, but oddly, never clothes. The good thing about getting over hoarding and collecting is that I have killed off credit cards, paid more bills on time, donated, and graduated from university debt free.
If somebody threw me to the ground and forced me to buy something with $325 dollars, it would likely be the PC netbook for $299 at Office Depot. If I had to buy an expensive gift, or gifts, I think a slew of Starbucks and Borders gift cards, at $25 to $50 dollar amounts, would be great for family and friends. I don't tend to buy $100 dollar gifts or more since anytime I did such a thing, it made that person feel uncomfortable. If I got an expensive gift for my wife, she would get mad at me and tell me about the basics in life like groceries and gas.
Back in my hoarding days, it would have been music in the form of albums and tapes back in the day, coins and stamps, model airplanes, guitars and music equipment, but oddly, never clothes. The good thing about getting over hoarding and collecting is that I have killed off credit cards, paid more bills on time, donated, and graduated from university debt free.
If somebody threw me to the ground and forced me to buy something with $325 dollars, it would likely be the PC netbook for $299 at Office Depot. If I had to buy an expensive gift, or gifts, I think a slew of Starbucks and Borders gift cards, at $25 to $50 dollar amounts, would be great for family and friends. I don't tend to buy $100 dollar gifts or more since anytime I did such a thing, it made that person feel uncomfortable. If I got an expensive gift for my wife, she would get mad at me and tell me about the basics in life like groceries and gas.
Good way to be AND a GREAT wife!
Wow, thanks. I don't know if being less of consumer is a necessary move or an attempt to change my habits on my part.
Clutter, even if it's high end antiques, is still clutter to me. This stems from having been a kid working the antique room for free but commission, or for a low wage in a family business.
When I wanted to be out playing with other kids or going to movies, I had to spend many a morning and afternoon with antiques. I got tired of yet another Berkeley or Stanford professor waxing poetic about this stuff. Sometimes, they would get so annoying I would give them a huge discount just to get rid of them. So collecting stuff, even really good stuff, just didn't do it for me. I do get a kick watching Antiques Road Show and I even see dealers I know and I have a deep appreciation for the old and vintage, but would never want that in my personal living space.
What used to bother me is right after I got married and parted with stuff via professional junk man or goodwill, my single friends who had no wife or girlfriends, but "stuff", would come over and dump goods at my place to make space in their dwellings. People left First Edition books, a Marshall half stack guitar amplifier rated at 100 freakin' watts to split my eardrums, a $1500 dollar fishing boat model, actual parts from the real fishing boats which were a part of nautical history (from someone who worked at a boat demolition yard). Many a junk collector or serious historian would be very pleased. But to me it was still junk taking up space.
I did have a collector's bug for some years in my life and one day I met this extremely versed man who had the biggest record, tape, and CD collection I had ever seen. He was such a collector of music and music industry knowledge I really looked up to him as THE expert. But he was a sick collector/hoarder and besides his impressive music collection, he collected bottles of his own urine (like in the movie, The Aviator, with Leonardo DiCaprio). Another collector, with a vast collection of books, also wore underwear once or twice, never washed it, and collected it and other soiled clothes in little bags in the closet. These examples, and a few others I have seen, cured me of being a hoarder or collector of anything.
Hoarding, which can start as innocent collecting, often gets out of hand and like many addictions, is progressive. It is akin to gambling and while not as outwardly physical as drinking/drugs, it has the potential to be just as disruptive to one's life. If anything good comes out of this recession, what less money people make/have will go to the basics and people will have less money to indulge in destructive hoarding behavior.
I know a people here posted pictures of really sick individuals who had a hoarding illness and posted pictures here, but the pictures, and threads were so disturbing, along with comments, that all such threads got wastelanded.