Materialistic.

Nick

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    Everyone has just a little bit materialistic in them, I think! Maybe I'm wrong. But I'm going to assume I'm right, and base this thread off of that speculation. If that's true, to what extent would you consider yourself to be materialistic? There has to be something you care about that isn't living and breathing just a little bit more than maybe one of your friends? IDK. Just something I've been thinking seriously about lately.
     
    I tend to form "friendships" with inanimate objects. I name them, hug them, and love them, and regard them as if they have feelings (parallel universe maybe they dooooooo oooooooh). It all depends on how much I use an item and how much time I've had to foster a relationship with it. My laptop, my waterbottle, my phone, my blanket, my iPod, and a few others. I really should get around to naming my video game systems/games because they're the most important material thing in the world to me. Except for my laptop. My laptop is an extension of my very being. I named it Fress <3

    Idk if this is really anything to do with materialism but it seems at least related to it? xD

    Edit: I should clarify. I don't love these things more than my friends. xD Most of my material possessions are useless or worthless to me, in fact I recently decluttered my room and threw/gave away almost everything. But I tend to become close to objects. Although I can't say I'd be too torn up if I had to get a new waterbottle, and I've actually been wanting a new phone and iPod.
     
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    I'm not materialistic at all, and probably never will be. Even if I lost everything that I own, which isn't much, I'd still be content. I spent most of my life without even a bed to sleep in XD. As long as I have certain someone, I'm good. ^_^.
     
    I'm very materialistic. I love my possessions and I'm happy when I'm buying trinkets and the like. Seeing all my stuff makes me happy. Yeah, I take joy in other areas of my life that can't be quantified but there's something about looking over at my collections that makes me go "wow, I'm so glad I own all this stuff!" :P I'd be lost without a lot of my possessions.
     
    I'm quite materialistic, I just love stuff in general, and the fact that I own it. (And shopping for even more new objects is even better! I always want more stuff.)

    And yes, I do care about my stuff more than I do other people. Unlike people, inanimate objects are neither cruel nor backstabbing. (Can't say I care more about my things than I do my cat, though.)
     
    I'm extremely materialistic. I never like throwing things away just on the off chance that I may want or need it some day. I've still got old headphones that don't work any more floating around my bedroom still just because I paid a lot of money for them and I like to know that if one day I need to use a set of headphones for something then I've got them there ready.
    I also like to keep things because I know they're collectable. Like for example I have a set of mythical creature statues on display in my room that my brothers always whining about because they take up an entire set of shelves. The same goes for my old pokemon figurines that I keep in my top drawer that my brother insists on me throwing out so he can put his stuff in there.
     
    Yeah basically, I get attached to items for really weird reasons. For example, I don't know what I'd do if I lost my first earrings or my ring or idk. I also feel bad for my laptop sometimes, etc. And my DS! I'd feel bad if I replaced my DS, but I intend to eventually. :( Though overall I don't really use items that much nor really buy clothes much so idk. lol.
     
    It's fair to say that I am quite materialistic. I love my iPod, my books, my TV, my movies, my clothes, pretty much anything tangible in the house that I own. That's not to say I don't appreciate humans just as much, but there's nothing wrong with loving items that make you happy, despite the fact they're not living, breathing beings. I like money, too. Money gets you things. Whoever said that money doesn't buy happiness a) never lived in poverty for any period of time and b) never truly appreciated the joy of buying things for yourself, wherever it be every day or occasionally. I don't love money, but I love the things I can get with it.

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    I think I can be materialistic with clothes. I know if I was extremely wealthy I would buy clothes even if I didn't need them. I just love the feeling of when you have something new to wear and I love feeling my best when I'm in them and talking about them to anyone who is willing to listen lol. There's just ALWAYS new clothes to buy and things you haven't seen or tried before. FILLS THE VOID IN MY LIFE I GUESS.
     
    I love the stuff that I do have, but I'm not obsessed with getting lots more stuff to add to it. I rarely buy clothes; I don't hesitate to throw stuff out (I'd never be able to appear on Hoarders!); most of the 'stuff' I have is comprised of DVDs/books; I can - and have - fit most of my life into a suitcase. And yet the things I do have, I really like. Does that make me materialistic? I dunno...
     
    I am, but I'm not sure by how much. I like things. However right now I am somewhat content with not buying anything new. Although that might be because I've got bills to pay, haha. However I don't like selling my stuff, especially video games.

    Honestly my favorite part of it all is buying things. I love bringing home something new, even if it's something as simple as a new notebook. :3
     
    I am materialism.

    I constantly buy DVDs and never watch them - I just want them so that I have them and have the option to watch them if I please. A few times I've bought an extra set of DVDs when I already had them just in case something happens to the original and it won't work anymore. I did this with the Charmed set a while ago - I have all eight Seasons on DVD, and I bought another complete 8-season set just because it came in the form of The Book of Shadows and it was a novelty and seemed cool.

    Similarly, I bought a second set of the Harry Potter movies just in case anything happened to the first after I read a news article that said the DVDs were going to be discontinued DVD-style. I didn't want to be without any of them for years until they decided to re-release them should anything happen to the first one. I then discovered that I had lost my copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and instead of reverting to the backup copy, went out and bought a new original one before they left stores so that I didn't have to use the backup. Then online recently I saw a special edition 34-disc set of all the movies in the form of Harry Potter's trunk. It cost $459 but I pre-ordered it because it was cool and I wanted it lol. It will arrive in September. I regret nothing.

    Movies and books - stories, essentially - are the main things I care about, so I tend to care about DVDs and books more than I care about some of the people in my life haha.

    sammi-san said:
    Honestly my favorite part of it all is buying things. I love bringing home something new, even if it's something as simple as a new notebook. :3
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    Yes, this! I love the actual act of buying things. I like going to the counter and swiping my card and having that feeling that something is about to become mine. SLGIughwlefhjelf
     
    I get attached to money, not items so much. To me having money is like having security; if I ever need it for anything it's there. But then I never want to spend it...
     
    I dont value material objects more than friends/living things. They're only objects afterall. I like my things, but they are just that, material things.
     
    I can be quite materialistic when it comes to things close to me... my laptop, my car, and my collection of anime related goods. These are things I value highly, and definitely take priority in my life. I'd even go far to say that I might be a bit too materialistic for my own good, but yeah, these things have become my life after graduating from college.

    Just wait till I amass my dream collection of classic cars, though... I'll probably value them so much I'd place more importance on them than my own self, let alone others.
     
    There are a handful of items I own (probably just three things at the moment, really) which I'm particularly attached to, but if I were to lose all my possessions right now (which isn't much at all), I probably wouldn't be all too bothered so long I had a place to stay. I'm also not one to seek new things to purchase or own or whatever. I really don't like shopping, and when I do, it's mostly on a "I need this" basis.

    I guess it helps that I'm incredibly frugal. I just don't like spending money, unless it's for food or rent or whatever. I always default to the cheapest alternative, which is usually not buying something, despite how much I want it.
     
    I am a lot less materialistic than I used to be. I don't really have that many attachments any more. If I had to list something though, I would say my katana.
     
    I am materialistic, but only for certain things. If the material in question has value, helps me create, or helps me better myself, I am fond of it and don't want to lose it. These are things like my laptop, my bike, my camera, my guitars and guitar accessories. Also, things that I got in foreign places hold that much more value to me. I bought a Kings of Leon CD in California while visiting one of my best friends, who I had met at this forum, and although it's just a CD, I never want to lose it. It holds a lot of sentimental value.

    But I've also got some expendable things. My phone, my iPod. Both of these I can do without.
     
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