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Living without "stuff" (pg. 4)
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| Beat Blog |
I never "came" to this conclusion, I've lived this way my whole life. As a child I used to do a self-imposed yearly clean out and get rid of all the I didn't want. I'm still fairly anally retentive, and prefer "mimimalist" design of all aspects of life, especially housing and architecture.
My room:
Bed
Reading table with lamp
Table with laptop, mixer and speakers.
Small couch
Everything that isn't required for everyday use, i.e photo albums, is packed into boxes and put into storage elsewhere.
New CDs are ripped to the computer and then stored likewise. |
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| Sushipunk |
I guess i 'kind of' get the principle. I don't like keeping useless around either.
I do, however, like living in a nice environment, and some of that comprises of 'stuff'. Nice comfortable furniture, and decorations (for use of a better word) that are pleasing to the eye. I like to have a social area (the deck) which has a decent sized table/chairs, and a couple of couches. Some nice plants too.
My deck:
It's a cool space space. Necessary? No. Enjoyable, yes. |
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| basd |
That looks pretty good, Sushipunk..
I couldn't possibly live like the topic starter intends to do.. I work hard and I like spending the hard-earned money on stuff I need, want and/or like. No living like a homeless guy for me.
Or is this just the next cool thing for people into minimal? |
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| Project-K |
| I'd live on that deck. |
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| wotyzoid |
| You watched Fight Club didn't you ? |
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| diggerz |
I wish I had a solar-powered cruise (1/4 or 1/3 of the size of a normal ship) in this way I could travel the world by sea. It would have wooden floors and a built-in lounge with comfortable but not overly expensive seats and booths (noise-proof of course) and I'd much rather design it myself under appropiate supervision (e.g: become friends with engineers, for they are the real pushers and trendsetters within an economy).
I will begin my excursion in the shore lines of a distant island near Costa Rica. Our trip intends to navigate across the pacific ocean through Asian waters and into the 'Dead Sea' our focal point of what one would describe as a 'rough navigation testing' zone, if you will. If our solar powered boat is able to drive itself during the mid-summer months of the Pacific shoreline without the use of petroeum, we could sell our cruise to a private company, a multi-national, an oil-man from the middle east, a .com millionaire with a sharp-eye for technology.
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
-Eventually get rid of the desktop PC in favor of a more portable laptop (it's bound to become obsolete eventually, and when that happends, I'll just refrain from buying another desktop). This will probably be the biggest and most difficult step, but I've already been steering in that direction. I barely have any interest in video games anymore (mostly because they're all ), and most of my PC use has been reduced to browsing, text processing and listening to music (all things I can do just as well on a decent laptop).
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| diggerz |
The inevitable three key questions of initiative and strategic planning float around attentively like floating toads on swamp water leaves. How? At first I'd opted to use previously disposed iron and steel parts and pieces taken from car manufacturers and military engineering facilities, one would only imagine the cost of such raw materials would bring down the overall production cost, specially now that the cost of raw materials (e.g: Iron, steel and Gold) has increased significantly.
Once we have the raw materials and a group of willing and adventurous engineers we'll set forth in our far-fetched pursuit of re-designing a classic, yet underappreciated, method of transportation.
The other question that succumbs our attention and infects us with the same idility that we experience when observing a distant snow covered cliff. If such a boat is built as close knitted and accurate in terms of engineering efficiency and accuracy, how long would this ship sail at night without the use of petroleum?
How free and friendly will the waters be? If land is scarce and water covers most of the planet's regions, wouldn't it be wise to explore the seas again? With better technology, with energy efficiency in mind and a distant philosophical endevour to create well-being and thus cleaning our concrete jungle with less vehicles.
Oh boy, lol |
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| diggerz |
You know it's threads like this which really tick Mr.JiveBoJingles. He walks in expecting Tolstoy references of living a 'life' of 'material freedom' or Thoreu's obsession with 'truth'. On the contrary, this poor toddler finds no answers like such. He encounters the predictability and comformity that he sees in humans, but not within him, mainly because he likes to dissasociate himself from the 'common' man. You see, for mr.jbj traits like humor, sarcasm and racial abuse are a moral plague of our time, what is ironic is that in 10 years from now he will despise his own kind, he will repeat the conditioned abusive behavior that he experienced while on his youthful philosophical journey across the world wide web.
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by diggerz
You know it's threads like this which really tick Mr.JiveBoJingles. He walks in expecting Tolstoy references of living a 'life' of 'material freedom' or Thoreu's obsession with 'truth'. On the contrary, this poor toddler finds no answers like such. He encounters the predictability and comformity that he sees in humans, but not within him, mainly because he likes to dissasociate himself from the 'common' man. You see, for mr.jbj traits like humor, sarcasm and racial abuse are a moral plague of our time, what is ironic is that in 10 years from now he will despise his own kind, he will repeat the conditioned abusive behavior that he experienced while on his youthful philosophical journey across the world wide web.
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What the heck are you on? |
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