NYT: "Living With Less. A Lot Less."

[Boom_70]

Yahoo does these stories all the time. Usually they consist of people surviving on $12K a year by getting their food at grocery stores' dumpsters.

In Portland

 

[Azrael]

Sheathe your lack of stuff in a Philip Johnson or Richard Neutra glass house and it's referred to as 'minimalism.'

 

[poindexter]

I can't figure out whether the guy was a bigger asshole when he had a lot of shirt, or a little.

"roommates to manage" - oy vey

 

[Boom_70]

Sheathe your lack of stuff in a Philip Johnson or Richard Neutra glass house and it's referred to as 'minimalism.'

I read your post quickly and thought it read "sheathe your staff" which is probably a good idea if you live in a glass house.

You should also eat at places like the Four Seasons with the minimalist interior.

 

[BenPoquette]

Yahoo does these stories all the time. Usually they consist of people surviving on $12K a year by getting their food at grocery stores' dumpsters.

Yeah, but this story in the Times doesn't seem to be about saving money - it's about saving space and sanity. Even when I was making $10/hour, I still accumulated "stuff" at an alarming rate. Even in college, when I was making $0/hour, I somehow accumulated stuff.

I am a vintage baseball/football/basketball card hoarder. Sometimes I wonder what my life (and office) would be like if I cashed in all the crap I have accumulated over the last 30 years or so. Then again, I couldn't let my babies go, could I. I have this dream I am going to give it all to my two sons one day and they will appreciate it. Chances of that actually happening?

 

[poindexter]

I am a vintage baseball/football/basketball card hoarder. Sometimes I wonder what my life (and office) would be like if I cashed in all the crap I have accumulated over the last 30 years or so.

Not that much will change. Try selling your stuff in real arm's length transactions (as opposed to looking at prices online). If you have a nice collection, you probably can sell enough to have a nice steak dinner.

I have this dream I am going to give it all to my two sons one day and they will appreciate it. Chances of that actually happening?

Good luck. When your boys are old enough, they probably won't give a shirt, and will spend their time forking their holograph avatar in their bedroom with the doors closed.

 

[X-Hack]

I DON'T know that the gadgets I was collecting in my loft were part of an aberrant or antisocial behavior plan during the first months I lived in SoHo. But I was just going along, starting some start-ups that never quite started up when I met Olga, an Andorran beauty, and fell hard. My relationship with stuff quickly came apart.

So he did all for the nookie...

 

[dixiehack]

Good luck. When your boys are old enough, they probably won't give a shirt, and will spend their time forking their holograph avatar in their bedroom with the doors closed.

Pics or GTFO.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Good luck. When your boys are old enough, they probably won't give a shirt, and will spend their time forking their holograph avatar in their bedroom with the doors closed.

Pics or GTFO.

Depends. Is the avatar a 6?

 

[X-Hack]

Seriously though, the article rubbed me the wrong way. How adorable that this rich, single guy -- with the freedom to travel the world on a whim while having the luxury of downsizing in style and buying the kind the custom-designed furniture to enable him to host 12 people for a dinner party in his 400-foot space -- lectures the rest of us about how to live.