Tuesday Aug 03, 2004

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I am presenting myself with an interesting challenge... no buying anything unless it is necessary to my survival (food, toothpaste, toilet paper -shit of this nature are exempted). I was looking over my expenses for stupid shit -tee shirts, shoes, dvds, cds, all of this crap I don't need I keep buying. I keep looking for reasons to justify my needs vs. my means. It's weird, I feel as though I fill my life with stuff rather than just sit back, enjoy what I have and lose the excess. So, I will try not to buy anything I don't need for a week... if I succeed, then I'll try it for longer periods of time. My spending has gotten WAY out of control since I got this job... it's absurd. The psychology behind consumption fascinates me. I wonder what I am trying to accomplish with self defeating behavior.
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moneymilo:
I think we do tend to fill our lives with possessions rather than concentrating on encouraging our own sense of satisfaction and happiness. I think we figure that possessions = happiness, but happiness and contentment are internal feelings so what we are doing is just postponing our having to face our feelings and sense of being by supplementing happiness with new possessions.

I suck, if i have money in my bank i always find a way to convince myself to buy something, a book, a cd, clothes, a gadget which i will use for about 2 days and then abandon. One of these days i will learn.

I need a passport to get to spain in a couple of months. To be honest i'm not really looking forward to it but my folks are paying.
shadowmancer:
3 days? Geezer.


Good luck on the not-buying-crap thing. I have the some problem. Every now and again I thing about going all Buddhist and throwing all the crap of my life away.


Then something cool comes on t.v.

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