I laughed out loud at the thought of people throwing away grandpa's Amiibo collections. Really underscores how stupid that craze was.
Because it's about building connection to people. People who sell art and make art. It the kind of connection that evaporates by online interaction.
I've lived in NYC all of my life and I've never felt forced to keep what I really need and love...the latter which I assume is items of extreme importance and not materialistic love for stuff like my amiibo, figures, and game collection!
Or their grief will be debilitating and they'll hold onto a pile of trash for ages because it belonged to their parents. My point of reference; my mother, who only now, 15 years later, is recycling shit that my grandparents didn't really care about, like a box of Reader's Digests, because they belonged to her mom and dad. That's a burden I'm certain my grandma and grandpa wouldn't have placed on their kids if they had the foresight to see the consequences of holding onto a lifetime worth of stuff beyond the point of getting any utility out of it.
I'm not advocating throwing things in the garbage, and I certainly wouldn't judge you for what you find happiness in. What I'm trying to advocate for in this thread is for people being more discerning with regards to the value their purchases add to their lives. I found joy in the idea that things I didn't use or enjoy anymore could be at worst, recycled and at best, sold or given to someone who would find far more happiness in those items than I did.
I know this thread kinda died but I'm still not over it. Can we talk about the egregious claim in this thread that collecting music is "embarrassing?" The claim that embracing the art form that many scholars describe as the most fundamental indicator of humanity is "embarrassing" now? Active listeners are "embarrassing," everyone, take note!
That, combined with the absurd conflation of minimalism and environmentalism, makes this thread absolutely infuriating to me. Minimalism, as grossly characterized in this thread, is an offshoot of disposable culture; if you don't want something anymore, you get rid of it. Hundreds of CDs? Into the trash they go, I'm a "minimalist" in a first-world country, who gives a shit where they'll end up?
I'm not articulating my point too well. I don't know if I even have one. But it's one in the morning, I'm a budding insomniac, and the cocktail of proud wastefulness, close-mindedness, and sweeping judgment of other people, suspended in that ubiquitous ResetERA smugness, pisses me off irrationally.
yeah, maybe my perception of "collecting" is different than other people's, too
Have you seen the AVGN videos where he shows his movie collection? There is a video of him, when he was younger, when he had about 15 VHS horror movie tapes. He says 'these are all the tapes that I will ever need'.
