Comments on: Shopping, Rethunk | A Practical Antidote

By: Kerch McConlogue

Kerch McConlogue — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:17:18 +0000

Ah.. I have called this “appreciating without having to own.” Works wonders.
Couple that with the re-purposing of my existing stuff… and life can be, well, if not good, at least a little more manageable.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:44:13 +0000

I am one of those people who has a storage space. I have too many paintings and think that when I have a bigger house I will have more wall space. Also, they belonged to my mother which makes me feel like I should hold on to them so I can pass them on to my daugher (when she has her own house! – she is 17). I love this topic. I live in the US Virgin Islands. there are lots of tourist shopping ops here (jewelry, perfume, liquor etc… ) but no great malls or endless streets to window shop so I only go shopping when I need something specific (not often). When I visited California where I lived for 5 years – last year I remembered that shopping is an “activity” and that people go out (yes, like to the hunt) and spend whole days engaged in this activity. It made me very tired. Personally I enjoy going into stores and (like you with the prints) relishing and investigating things I might like and then NOT buying them. This gives me great satisfaction – far more, in fact, than walking away with more stuff and a credit card bill. I actually told the sales person this – that I was practicing not buying and getting pretty good at it. She looked like she understood.

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:14:19 +0000

this morning in my notebook I wrote: “Experience a lot, own a little.”

last night in my speaking group, one woman said, we come into this world with nothing, we leave with nothing. it’s about how we spend our time with people here.

she said, when we leave, the stuff stays.