#82

I’m currently moving from an unfurnished 2-bed to a furnished room, so I’ve done a lot of this recently. Trying to just be really ruthless - the worst thing by miles was putting all of my CDs into a CD wallet and chucking the cases away. That. Took. HOURS.

#83

same. except my mum likes to go around old fashioned auction rooms.

#84

That sounds a bit different though, this woman just bought furniture to have around the house, she mentioned it because she’s having to buy a bigger house to put all her furniture in. She’s lovely and all, but obviously from a different planet

#85

Oh this is furniture my mother doesn’t actually have room for.

Until she gets rid of everything and suddenly has none for a while.

She also isn’t happy unless she’s living in a building site.

#86

I’m wondering if enjoying having “stuff” is a generational thing or whether it’s something that happens when you get older. Most people on this thread seem to agree that it’s nice to have fewer things lying around doing nothing but it sounds like all our parents love it.

A few years ago my parents got into car boots and auctions but stopped when they realised they weren’t selling much of their own crap and they were buying other people’s instead. They even had to get the loft done so they could put more stuff in there as the garage, spare room and my old room were full.

#87

I guess it’s how things have changed economically over the years. In the 60s and 70s housing was cheap, but things like clothes and home electronics were expensive. Now stuff is abundant and cheap, so much so that it’s kind of an annoyance that gets in the way.

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#88

Yup, which also leads to the absurd generational idea that the failure to own a home these days is down to wasting money on frivolous stuff etc

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#89

If only I hadn’t occasionally drunk a coffee, I could be living in a mansion now.

Also the whole “people on benefits mocking us with their big telly”. A big telly is cheap, and if you stay in every evening because you can’t afford pubs, restaurants, tickets to events etc, it’s probably one of the cheapest entertainments there is when you divide the price up per evening over its life.

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#90

Yup. “They’ve all got flatscreen TVs” alright,you go out and try to buy a little cathode-ray-tube number now please

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#91

That’s not a generational idea, it’s just one held by thick people.

#92

Nah, it’s definitely generational as well Mr Filth, sir.

#93

“they’ve all got phones. how dare they have an object now required to take part in society”

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#94

My 45 year old sister is like this. She’s comfortably off, and got all the mod cons, but has this weird resentment of anyone poor or unemployed having anything nice. Like somehow them having a telly takes away from hers, and the only thing that’s enjoyable about it is feeling spiteful joy that other people can’t afford it. Rather than enjoying watching things on your nice telly.

#95

No, only in the sense that older people are less likely to have any experience of buying a first home in recent years. Only idiots think that house deposits are as easy to accumulate as they were twenty years ago, and only idiots think you can save one up by buying fewer skateboards and tubes of beard wax.

#96

There are lots of idiots writing newspaper columns then…

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#97

Well idiots and evil people who serve idiots what they want to hear.

I have to confess, one of my oldest friends has been dabbling in writing money tips type articles for the press in recent years, and it does set my teeth on edge a bit whenever one of her pieces comes out.

#98

A concern of mine is that when I am 80 I will be watching the antiques roadshow and will see something that turns out to be worth a billion that I threw out years before

#99

We’re going off topic here.

How do you deal with TV related clutter? I have a mesh cable tidy, and all the wires run into a box I had made that sits under the lowest shelf.

#100

Is this your TV?

#101

burn your books, I say

burn down you local library, I say