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25 Apr 2011, 6:57 pm

Does anyone here tend to have odd priorities compared to other people?

To give an example, some years ago I had to move house rather quickly for various reasons. At the time I lived in a rented property that I had furnished myself. I could not afford a removal van so a friend/lover agreed to help me salvage as much as possible using his car. I think at the time he was expecting me to load the car up with various household sundries such as irons, cutlery and other useful items and obviously my clothing. What did I fill his car up with? My clothes and shoes, my jigsaw puzzle collection (from when they were my main hobby), my Dvd collection (from when that was my hobby), a pile of art kits (that I keep meaning to try at some point), my books (mostly about para-psychology from when that was my main interest) and my cross stitching kits and 3 years worth of cross stitching magazines (which I will not part with and which have many lovely charts in for me to get around to doing one day) as that was my main hobby at the time.

He never did stop complaining about how I should have brought more household stuff instead of my magazines and jigsaws etc. But personally I did not mind parting with the household items. I will NOT part with my collections (or my babies as I call them) though! I do tend to end up with some rather large collections at times as well. When it comes to cross stitching for example, most people have a few spare kits in for when they have finished the one they are working on but I presently have over 60! I also get really rather attached to them. Even when they are no longer my main interest I will not part with them.

I will say though, that even though I have moved again since then (I finally have a place I can call home lol) and have had to completely refurnish a new place, I do not regret salvaging my babies at all! Even if people do think my priorities are a little...umm weird.

What odd priorities do you have.



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25 Apr 2011, 7:09 pm

Whenever I come into extra money, I always spend it on my special interests rather than practical things such as clothes or shoes. I'm willing to shell out hundreds of dollars in one go over things that relate to my special interests, but I refuse to spend over $20 on a shirt. Thrift stores are my best friend for when I need new clothes.



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25 Apr 2011, 7:15 pm

Yes I just spent £200 on Sequin art kits (present hobby) and I still don't have a chest of draws or wardrobe for the bedroom lol.



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25 Apr 2011, 7:57 pm

bumble wrote:
a pile of art kits (that I keep meaning to try at some point)

LOL. I have a whole box of art supplies which I hardly ever use. And I did shove the box under the bed of my new room. I also kept my camera collection that I've stopped collecting. I had no where to put them so I displayed them on my bookshelf. I also tried to salvage my plastic parachuter who I threw up on my lighting fixture but he got all tangled. He was only like $2 but.

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Whenever I come into extra money, I always spend it on my special interests rather than practical things such as clothes or shoes. I'm willing to shell out hundreds of dollars in one go over things that relate to my special interests, but I refuse to spend over $20 on a shirt. Thrift stores are my best friend for when I need new clothes.

I do this too. Or I go to the bookshop, plan to just just ONE book and end up spending $90 on about 3-5.

One odd thing I did was I was getting ready for a job interview but the shoes hurt, then I thought if I do start working I can't walk around all day in uncomfortable shoes so I spend $130 on a pair of negative heeled and comfort style black shoes. And I never got that sodding interview. I still can't wear those shoes in case I do get another job interview so I don't want to get them dirty. But I need another pair of shoes but now I can't spend that much on them.


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25 Apr 2011, 7:59 pm

Yep.


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25 Apr 2011, 8:15 pm

IdahoRose wrote:
Whenever I come into extra money, I always spend it on my special interests rather than practical things such as clothes or shoes. I'm willing to shell out hundreds of dollars in one go over things that relate to my special interests, but I refuse to spend over $20 on a shirt. Thrift stores are my best friend for when I need new clothes.

*thumbs up* This is me, totally.

All of my extra money goes to art supplies, ingredients (for cooking), books, and random electronics. :lol:

Shopping for clothing or anything more practical is way down there on the list of "important things".

Oh, and if I were to save something from a burning building, I'd probably chose my laptop.


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25 Apr 2011, 9:08 pm

1. I can't throw away a piece of paper if someone has written on it by hand. Even if it's just a grocery list. Once it's written on it's sacred cause they'll never write those words with those penstrokes for that purpose ever again. So I have boxes full of such papers.

2. I'll do anything to avoid technology or bureaucracy. That means avoiding mailing stuff at the post office and figuring out how to use the printer that's sitting right here. I lost out on $600 earlier this year cause I don't know how to make it so you can write on a PDF file and I needed to do this writing study. Were it not for this problem I'd probably be a functional human being.



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25 Apr 2011, 10:03 pm

Oh yeah. I have all kinds of craft items. I also have a ton of stuff from my childhood. Even have baby cloths and elementary school homework.

My husband just ignores the piles of stuff.

I have gotten better and actually trimmed some of it.


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25 Apr 2011, 11:03 pm

Okay, I'm trying to figure out what is so bad about your priorities. You saved the most expensive and hard-to-replace items. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. I'm assuming that your dishes were not fine china or something like that. Dishes are cheap, and you can get them at any department store, so why worry about them?


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25 Apr 2011, 11:51 pm

I definitely have very odd priorities & preferences.



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26 Apr 2011, 1:36 am

I have always had priorities like that - my interests are pretty important and are always ahead of everything but clothes and cats.

I remember once seeing a news story about a house burning down on Christmas Eve when I was very young, and my immediate reaction was that it would be awful to lose all their presents. Generally speaking, my gifts were always primarily aimed at my interests, so I associated the two rather thoroughly.