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Tag: stuff

  • Dealing with my collecting self

    I collect a lot of things, I’m careful not to say hoard, cause I do throw things away. I have collections of books, shoes, pens, games, inks, all sorts of things.

    Collecting too many of the same thing has become something I watch out for, so currently, I’ve stopped collecting black t-shirts. I had written a few times about my black t-shirt collections, but I really have stopped. It’s quite a change now to have colorful clothing, but I still have a soft spot for my black tees. Thankfully, I’m wearing down some of them, and some are even becoming grey! The materials are pretty good, so there’s some wear, but not at the speed that I can really get rid of them entirely.

    Which brings me to how I’m dealing with my collecting self: I’m trying to use things up

    It sounds ridiculous, but usually I would save things and keep them. But now I’m just trying to use as much as I can.

    • I’m trying to play through my video game collections, so that I can actually enjoy them instead of just thinking about how great it would be to play them.
    • I’m trying to draw a bit more, so I’m bringing my sketchbooks and pens around, but it’s kinda heavy. But I’m still trying to get some of this done.
    • I was running quite a bit, to get my wear into my shoes, but I stopped, and I’m going to try getting back to it again.
    • And I was attempting 52 books this year, to start hacking away at my book collection. It’s a mix of digital and physical books, but I’m getting along bit by bit.

    Hopefully by the end of this year, I’ll be able to say that I’ve read X amount of books, and given away a few of them. Or that I’ve worn through my t-shirts and started on other things. Or just clearing games that have laid in my library unplayed.

    Just one day at a time, and hopefully I’ll get over most of it.

  • The Non Minimalistic Life

    There’s always this big whoop over minimalism as a lifestyle. I mean from this blog you’d think that I’d be totally into it too. The whole clean look, simple lines, nothing crazy or bright. Maybe a lot of white, a lot of Muji, whole lot of wood on the floors, the tables, the walls. Then that simple one cup. or one pen. or one book. That’s the minimalism that we really love to glamorise.

    Then the minimalist person is someone who wears a black T-shirt, denim, and white sneakers. They’re all really cleanly washed and looking really fresh. That’s the Minimalist, right?

    And maybe I might be that? I wear black T-shirts and jeans; I wear white shoes; my home has Muji furnishings, and wood; I have that one cup, or pen, or book. I guess the issue would be that I have a lot of these single items, and when I say a lot, I really do mean a lot. I have Muji things, here and there. I have a few pens that I really like. I have a favourite writing book, and I have a few of them. And I wear black T-shirts too, for sure.

    And that’s where my version of minimalism falls apart. I really have one or two types of items that I really like, and they’re multiplied. They cover everything that I like, and they’re exactly what I want it. I really enjoy having a huge amount of black T-shirts, because they’re all the type of T-shirt that I really want. That works really well for me. I also stopped buying a huge range of magazines, instead I have one particular magazine that I buy. I have been buying it for years, so I have the past few years worth of this magazine. It’s not minimalism, but it’s the kind of minimalism that I find myself into.

    I would like to classify myself as a non-minimalist. I’m by no means a maximalist, which goes into that mass extreme of many types of many things. I think my definition of myself in the way that I collect and consider things should still contain that idea that it is minimal, meaning a lot less, but I’m not at the same time, because I have many of that one option.

    If you asked me what kind of T-shirts I have, I would have to tell you that I am limited by black, and white. In recent years, I have been adding to that, because of different T-shirt offerings that I find very interesting. The other colored shirts I have were T-shirts from childhood, that I either have a strong emotional attachment to, and still “sparks joy”, or they are t-shirts that I need to have, because of work. But I do not simply join a trend and buy the hype of a Supreme or BAPE T-shirt. It’s not where I’m at. I’m a minimalist in my approach of colors that I’m choosing.

    So I hope this helps you to get out of the possible shame you might be facing in having a bunch of things. I know I felt really bad having many things, and that I should get rid of it. But after much thought, and personal reflection, I know I have nothing to be ashamed about. Instead, I can be really happy of all the black t-shirts that I have. Because they’re really the best things to wear.

  • the point in life

    where you really just don’t know what’s exactly going on.

    I think I’ve dived into too many hobbies at this point, and yet, I feel quite bored about them all, and extremely excited at the same time. This year of COVID and the whole break from society gave me a bunch of things to do, and a lot for myself to process. I really enjoyed doing the artist way this year, and I got into tapes, into vinyls, into CDs again, and now I’m into mechanical keyboards. I really think that there’s so much that one can do in a life, and I think I’m hitting a number of them at one time.

    Key things that you need to know about mechanical keyboards.
    1. You should test it out and hear it for yourself before you actually start making one.
    2. Aim for the endgame one straight away, the best keyboard you would ever want to have.
    3. If you’re doing it for fun, then remember that you’re committing to something that will always take time, and cost a lot of money.
    Key things you need to know about the artist way
    1. It sucks to wake up early, but after that it sucks to wake up late.
    2. Get cheap paper and cheap pens, so that you don’t have to buy expensive paper to fit your expensive pens and their expensive pen ink.
    3. Reflect on your reflections, if not it gets wasted.
    Key things about recording tapes on a boom box
    1. It snaps and peaks when you press it too hard.
    2. Radio stations have ads (I forgot)
    3. Remember to check how much you have recorded so far before you start recording, so that it doesn’t die out half way while recording
    Key things about vinyls
    1. Cost money.
    2. Takes time to listen, obviously. But it takes time.
    3. Remember to flip them, and to store them after the sides are done.
    Key things to know about touch typing
    1. It slows down the way that you currently type
    2. It makes you feel really weird about the way you type, and you’ll never type the same way again.

    Honestly, I’m writing this post because I’m done doing typing tests for today, and I wanted something to put on the site, because I haven’t posted anything for ages. Plus, I really wanted to type.