http://daily.sightline.org/2012/03/13/living-the-good-life-not-the-goods-life/ News & Views for a Sustainable Northwest Thu, 23 May 2013 14:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://daily.sightline.org/2012/03/13/living-the-good-life-not-the-goods-life/#comment-10291 RobRoy Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:56:53 +0000 http://daily.sightline.org/?p=17879#comment-10291 As someone who makes things that I hope that people will buy it seems odd to comment on this article in the way that I am going to. There is nothing inherently wrong with buying things, nor is there anything wrong with having things. Things can beautify our homes, our backyards, our gardens if we choose to live in that way. The problem with things is that we have forgotten why we like to have them because they are really not that interesting. We buy junk to replace the junk we bought a few months ago because it has no soul, no passion, no history to it. Instead of spending a small amount of money on a bunch of useless crap maybe we should really think about why we like things and then save our money until that thing that has the passion, soul and history in it comes along. After all an object with all those components can be something we look at over and over, we use over and over and makes our lives more pleasant and fulfilling. I have spent most of my life buying things used, inheriting things from friends and family, and lots of dumpster diving and at 43 I still do all those things but occaisionally I buy something new but even then I search and search to make sure it is absolutely perfect.

]]> http://daily.sightline.org/2012/03/13/living-the-good-life-not-the-goods-life/#comment-9363 Lisa Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:20:39 +0000 http://daily.sightline.org/?p=17879#comment-9363 Also check out the recent posting by the Center for a New American Dream about Meg Hourihan’s “Make It Do” pledge–her own twist on buying nothing new for a year! See http://www.newdream.org/blog/make-it-do

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