On: Be happier: Rent Everything

[erikstarck]

I agree with Bruce Sterling. Buy an expensive bed and office chair (you spend most of your time in those and you only have one body). Then only keep stuff that's

- Extremely beautiful.

- Have an extraordinary emotional value to you. We're talking the watch in Pulp Fiction type of items.

- Highly practical.

Throw away everything else.

[qjz → erikstarck]

I'm sure you'll find many hoarders who can justify their entire collections with those three rules.

[erikstarck → qjz]

Bruce Sterling talks about that here: http://boingboing.net/2009/07/09/bruce-sterlings-clos.html It's a great speech filled with nuggets about life in the coming decade but the parts related to this starts at about 36 minutes in.

[jazzdev → erikstarck]

Great stuff in that video about knowing if something's beautiful or meaningful.

And some great stuff at the beginning about not wasting your time doing something you can do better when you're dead, like conserving water or electricity or reducing your carbon footprint. Flawed logic, but an interesting way to think about things.

[Unseelie → qjz]

But for people without that specific psychosis, they're pretty good rules.