Sunday, October 24, 2010

I live in a material world

I have this weird struggle with buying new things vs. getting rid of old things. I always have this urge to clean out my room so I don't have so much stuff or so many clothes, but then I have a really hard time actually giving things up. I probably have enough clothes that I would not have to wear the same thing for about 3 months. Part of the problem being that I have stayed relatively the same size since high school. So my stuff continues to grow and grow and grow because I always want to get something new. I have tried to be hard on myself lately and say that if I have not worn something in the past year, I need to get rid of it. I just took 3 bags of clothes to Goodwill and felt good about it, and I'm working on filling another. I always just feel like I might wear things at some point in the future. Ugh, so I am a girl, what can you do?

My other struggle is with technology. As you may know, technology and I don't get along very well. I am convinced that my body gives off some weird radiation or magnetic something that makes technology hate me. My phones always go crazy, my computer has a horrible temper for no apparent reason, etc etc. So I'm not really the biggest fan of computery things, but I work at a technology company surrounded by computers, iPhones, Droids, iPads...all day long, with people who are awesome at technology. So part of me craves to keep up with all the advances, but the other part of me is scared of it or I just don't want to pay for it. I'm hoping the price on smartphone plans will come down, it has to eventually due to economic principles and the product's saturation of the market. So I suppose I'll wait until then. My weakness though is cameras. I just bought a new camera a little over a year ago, and then as soon as I get it, they come out with something better and smaller and sleeker. It takes 5 pictures in one second, it has a 10x zoom and fits in your pocket...stop tempting me commercials!

I don't want to be a materialistic person, and really I don't think I am. I think it's more my sentimental nature, I enjoy being surrounding by things that I like and things that remind me of good times. I'm going to work hard though at letting things go, because it's just stuff. And also because I don't want to move a ton of stuff across country twice in the next two years.

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