The yes -- in my early years at uni, I didn't think about the quality of what I was buying until one friend commented about saving a bit and buying furniture they could imagine living with for the rest of their life (I paraphrase). These days, I'm more likely to regard furniture bought at, say, IKEA, as something that is serving a temporary (even if several years) purpose.
The no -- I still love buying books (and DVDS, and sometimes CDs) and I love fiddly trinketty things. Exactly what I'm buying changes (at the moment, I'm buying Funko Pops; previously I was getting rubber ducks, before that something else). And I love the joy that I get from them. I keep some clothing I'm never going to wear again because I don't want to treat it as ephemeral. Which means that I carried around clothing my grandmother made me, Youngest wore some of it, and now they have outgrown it, I'm putting it away in case there is another generation.
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The yes -- in my early years at uni, I didn't think about the quality of what I was buying until one friend commented about saving a bit and buying furniture they could imagine living with for the rest of their life (I paraphrase). These days, I'm more likely to regard furniture bought at, say, IKEA, as something that is serving a temporary (even if several years) purpose.
The no -- I still love buying books (and DVDS, and sometimes CDs) and I love fiddly trinketty things. Exactly what I'm buying changes (at the moment, I'm buying Funko Pops; previously I was getting rubber ducks, before that something else). And I love the joy that I get from them. I keep some clothing I'm never going to wear again because I don't want to treat it as ephemeral. Which means that I carried around clothing my grandmother made me, Youngest wore some of it, and now they have outgrown it, I'm putting it away in case there is another generation.