as far as material things go...
- falling back in love with reading for pleasure and not for academic requirement
- flat-wound guitar strings because they last forever and sound fantastic even when they're dead
- old goofy mugs; it's like a more buttoned-up equivalent to finding that out of pocket t-shirt at the thrift and i love how much character they add
Nov 4, 2024
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- ill go grocery shopping and get things i really want but cant afford to buy on a regular basis.
- second hand clothes or books; recently been buying books that are small so i can bring them with me anywhere and idk its just such vibe to hold a tiny book in public and also children's books r sooo fun to read as an adult
- tech gadget accessories for my convenience (sometimes for aesthetic purposes of my work station)
- an app/digital service/subscription that i probably wont use
- traveling to the place where i went to uni in to meet frens n go to my fav spots
Nov 9, 2024
i love stuff perhaps a little too much and it’s impossible for me to pick a single trinket but in general i think the stuff that i own that’s the most important to me at this point is stuff i’ve gotten secondhand at estate sales vs just bought new. assigning a personal history to something older than myself, keeping things that meant something to someone else meaningful for a little while longer.
started going estate sale-ing summer after i finished college with a great friend i made at school, which feels like the start of becoming the me i am now and collecting stuff that i really intentionally wanna try and keep for the rest of my life. pictured below is a grail from my first ever estate sale: a yearbook from my school 100 years before my graduation.
it’s the first thing you see when you walk into my apartment, the first place i lived in alone long-term - kinda wanna keep it by every entryway as i move apartments.
Mar 26, 2024
i love collections i have several... waistcoats and wizard figurines and little blue & white ceramic animals. and also vintage Australian native bird cards that used to be the collectable in a breakfast cereal (pictured). collecting things makes trips to secondhand stores wayyy more exciting
Oct 16, 2024
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i know it's basic but keeping a daily journal has been one of the most grounding things in my life. you don't need to shell out $$$ on a travelers' notebook and a snazzy pen, but just repeating the daily act of physically writing your thoughts down is a wonderful thing. i keep a daily recollection/diary sort of thing along with a sort of freeform commonplace book where i jot down thoughts or lyric ideas or cool words i read and had to look up definitions of. it's nerd shit but the sort of positive affirming nerd shit that everyone needs at least a little bit of. also the amount of stuff you forget over the course of a week/month/year is astounding -- doing this is fun in part because you can read through your past entries (good and bad) again with fresh eyes.
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i've been going to concerts religiously for the past decade and never before have i felt more immediate crowd energy than when this ******** brat cube appeared out of nowhere. absolutely incredible. maybe night 1 of oasis at wembley will top this but this was truly special
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i've had this same problem and the only solution i've found (granted there's not a crazy amount of options i've seen where i live) is looking at plato's closet or the thrift for stuff. old j.crew corduroys were all high waisted, bunch of older rustler/wrangler denim, etc. as far as new options go i'm in the same boat as you because i'm tired of gambling on whatever length they are 😭
Nov 4, 2024