Comments on: Avoid the Endless Upgrade: How to Be Happy with What You Have Got http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/ Tools to Lift Your Spirits and Help Focus Your Future Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:57:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Simone http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-142 Simone Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:44:10 +0000 http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-142 Hi Sharon, Thanks for the visit and the honesty about the shoes. Been there myself many a time :) S. Hi Sharon,
Thanks for the visit and the honesty about the shoes. Been there myself many a time :)
S.

]]> By: Simone http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-141 Simone Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:43:20 +0000 http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-141 Hi Julia, That's an impressive number of watercolours! A woman of many talents. My parents have so much stuff (I feel like a fisherman one-upping you about the catch that got away) that they built an "extra room" on their house by lifting the floor in the sunken lounge! That's commitment to stuff! S. Hi Julia,
That’s an impressive number of watercolours! A woman of many talents.

My parents have so much stuff (I feel like a fisherman one-upping you about the catch that got away) that they built an “extra room” on their house by lifting the floor in the sunken lounge!

That’s commitment to stuff!
S.

]]> By: Sharon http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-140 Sharon Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:28:23 +0000 http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-140 Simone, you've really nailed our materialistic society down to just one single post. There is no real destinction nowadays from want vs need. In fact, I even have problems separating the two. Especially, when I really need to get me a shoe that's outrageously expensive that probably might only be worn once or twice in it's lifetime. Guilty as charged. Great pointers. Maybe it's time to make that extra effort.... :) Simone, you’ve really nailed our materialistic society down to just one single post.

There is no real destinction nowadays from want vs need. In fact, I even have problems separating the two. Especially, when I really need to get me a shoe that’s outrageously expensive that probably might only be worn once or twice in it’s lifetime.

Guilty as charged. Great pointers. Maybe it’s time to make that extra effort….

:)

]]> By: julia ward http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-139 julia ward Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:19:08 +0000 http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-139 Hi Simone, Ah yes, the material girl. We're moving next week and I too have boxes, and boxes, and MORE boxes of stuff. Books! I could start a third world country with the books I own (or the books that own me). I have 6 guitars, more books, beads, cookbooks, and this amazing butternut wood countertop that was from the first hardware store in the town I grew up in. It weighs 70#'s and was made in 1872. I may wax poetic and ponder the paradox but I have history - and stuff. And I have over 2,000 watercolors hidden under my bed. Augh!!!!! blessings, julia julia ward - a BLINDING heart - a writer's blog www.ablindingheart.com Hi Simone,

Ah yes, the material girl. We’re moving next week and I too have boxes, and boxes, and MORE boxes of stuff. Books! I could start a third world country with the books I own (or the books that own me). I have 6 guitars, more books, beads, cookbooks, and this amazing butternut wood countertop that was from the first hardware store in the town I grew up in. It weighs 70#’s and was made in 1872. I may wax poetic and ponder the paradox but I have history - and stuff.

And I have over 2,000 watercolors hidden under my bed. Augh!!!!!

blessings,
julia
julia ward - a BLINDING heart - a writer’s blog
http://www.ablindingheart.com

]]> By: Simone http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-138 Simone Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:25:18 +0000 http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-138 Hi Chris, You are spot on about things and happiness - they have even studied the subject and found that once your basic needs are met, there is little difference in terms of the happiness of those just getting by and the very, very rich. I'll settle for very, very loved any day of the week :) Thanks for visiting! S. Hi Chris,
You are spot on about things and happiness - they have even studied the subject and found that once your basic needs are met, there is little difference in terms of the happiness of those just getting by and the very, very rich.
I’ll settle for very, very loved any day of the week :)
Thanks for visiting!
S.

]]> By: Simone http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-137 Simone Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:22:40 +0000 http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-137 Hi WalksFarWoman, Isn't that excellent how a move can do a sort of Spring Clean by default? My parents recently had their kitchen renovated and mum put all of her bits of pieces in the room next door. Only certain things got back "to the other side" - though I noticed she smuggled a few extra bits back in when I wasn't looking :) Thanks very much for the award! S. Hi WalksFarWoman,
Isn’t that excellent how a move can do a sort of Spring Clean by default?
My parents recently had their kitchen renovated and mum put all of her bits of pieces in the room next door. Only certain things got back “to the other side” - though I noticed she smuggled a few extra bits back in when I wasn’t looking :)
Thanks very much for the award!
S.

]]> By: Simone http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-136 Simone Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:18:58 +0000 http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-136 Hi Julia, Sometimes it makes me quite wistful that my first female idol was Madonna, the original material girl. But a few years backpacking around Europe gave me real focus as to the important things in life. Mum nearly cried when I told her I took my leather boots out of my backpack in Russell Square in London and gave them to a homeless person because my backpack was just too full! It was actually one of the most liberating moments of my life. Thanks, as always, for your insightful comments. S. Hi Julia,
Sometimes it makes me quite wistful that my first female idol was Madonna, the original material girl. But a few years backpacking around Europe gave me real focus as to the important things in life. Mum nearly cried when I told her I took my leather boots out of my backpack in Russell Square in London and gave them to a homeless person because my backpack was just too full! It was actually one of the most liberating moments of my life.
Thanks, as always, for your insightful comments.
S.

]]> By: Chris http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-134 Chris Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:22:05 +0000 http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-134 Great topic Simone. I have lived long enough to realize that things don't make you happy. If you're happy already, they're nice, but if you're unhappy about your life, material things only make you happy for a little while, then you're back to where you started. Thanks for adding me and keep up the great wriing. Great topic Simone. I have lived long enough to realize that things don’t make you happy. If you’re happy already, they’re nice, but if you’re unhappy about your life, material things only make you happy for a little while, then you’re back to where you started. Thanks for adding me and keep up the great wriing.

]]> By: WalksFarWoman http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-133 WalksFarWoman Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:58:51 +0000 http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-133 Hi Simone, I'm having a material purge at the minute. I moved house a few months ago and most of the boxes are still undisturbed which means it's all 'stuff' I can live without. Excellent post to reinforce my goals! Hope you'll accept the award I just posted for you at Kissing the Dogwood. :) Hi Simone, I’m having a material purge at the minute. I moved house a few months ago and most of the boxes are still undisturbed which means it’s all ’stuff’ I can live without. Excellent post to reinforce my goals!

Hope you’ll accept the award I just posted for you at Kissing the Dogwood. :)

]]> By: julia ward http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-132 julia ward Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:49:26 +0000 http://outfitinspirations.com/blog/avoid-the-endless-upgrade-how-to-be-happy-with-what-you-have-got/#comment-132 Being an aging, existential hippie chick, I bring old-age and weathered wisdom to the table. When I was fourteen we protested the Vietnam War and wore lovebeads and peace signs. We ate berries and gave away our possessions. Now, we consume everything in our path to massage our egos and our spirits to keep out the emptiness. Sometimes, a violet is enough - drops of rain singing in a puddle, sometimes it isn't. We have the luxury of choosing the value we place upon our lives/possessions, our time, and our relationships. The real question is do we define "who we are" by what owns us (our possessions)? Choose well Grasshopper! blessings, julia julia ward - a BLINDING heart - a writer's blog www.ablindingheart.com Being an aging, existential hippie chick, I bring old-age and weathered wisdom to the table. When I was fourteen we protested the Vietnam War and wore lovebeads and peace signs. We ate berries and gave away our possessions. Now, we consume everything in our path to massage our egos and our spirits to keep out the emptiness.

Sometimes, a violet is enough - drops of rain singing in a puddle, sometimes it isn’t. We have the luxury of choosing the value we place upon our lives/possessions, our time, and our relationships. The real question is do we define “who we are” by what owns us (our possessions)?

Choose well Grasshopper!

blessings,
julia
julia ward - a BLINDING heart - a writer’s blog
http://www.ablindingheart.com

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