Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[George Lucas]

$6k is way too much for a stereo setup.

 

[Shig O'nella]

And here I spent $45 on my technics stereo from a thrift shop that came with a turn table, table, tape deck, radio receiver and a cd player.

Only component of my system that wasn't free is the amp. That one I built myself since I like valve amps and they're hard to come by on a budget of zero. Did build the speakers, too.
Sometimes I like pissing about with soldering irons.

 

[TheBeanz]

$6k is way too much for a stereo setup.

Depends on what your budget is. If you want something cutting edge in its particular field, then you have to spend the big bucks. Whether or not you need or can afford it is a different argument, it's normally the people who spend beyond their means for bragging rights are the ones consooming when it comes to audio setups.

 

[Arnold7834]

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I do want to touch on this example. Is the problem that its all star wars stuff or that its entirely in one room.
I do want to help @Arnold7834 even if he doesn't listen. I think its important to give him a chance and to help him out.
Personally this isn't that bad, its clean and so long as the rest of the house isn't filled to the brim like this, I'd say its harmless.

I just want to know what is right or what is bad.
How much is too much?
This is too much according to you guys.
But then you say its fine to hold on to some of your sentimental stuff from your childhood.

Where do you put it? Just store it in boxes and never touch them again?

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

There is nowhere to sit, nowhere to relax. A chair or two would make a big difference here. It's neatly organized but lacking in a certain SOUL with it's layout.

Maybe he couldn't afford the chairs from the Millennium Falcon.

 

[TheBeanz]

I just want to know what is right or what is bad.
How much is too much?
This is too much according to you guys.
But then you say its fine to hold on to some of your sentimental stuff from your childhood.

Where do you put it? Just store it in boxes and never touch them again?

Do whatever the fuck you want with it, just don't tell strangers on the Internet about it.

It's not difficult

 

[whitepumpkin]

I just want to know what is right or what is bad.
How much is too much?
This is too much according to you guys.
But then you say its fine to hold on to some of your sentimental stuff from your childhood.

Where do you put it? Just store it in boxes and never touch them again?

This thread is never boring, I'll say that.

What do you care what strangers on the internet think? Go through your damn toys and pick out the ones that mean the most or research to see which ones will get you the most money on ebay then either store the box to give to some kids or keep them and shut up. No one here literally gives a fuck about what's in your house, unless you make some autistic youtube about it. Then we'll be talking about you.

Read a Marie Kondo book and take her advice if you need someone to tell you what to do.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

I just want to know what is right or what is bad.
How much is too much?
This is too much according to you guys.
But then you say its fine to hold on to some of your sentimental stuff from your childhood.

Where do you put it? Just store it in boxes and never touch them again?

> Am i a consoomer?

Do we really need to have this conversation every few pages?

 

[Pissmaster]

I just want to know what is right or what is bad.
How much is too much?
This is too much according to you guys.
But then you say its fine to hold on to some of your sentimental stuff from your childhood.

Where do you put it? Just store it in boxes and never touch them again?

It's not quantifiable, it's a state of mind where you feel the need to buy certain products for social acceptance and/or mental stability, despite not actually wanting those products for your own personal use. It's a type of hoarding.

If you're really insecure about crossing that threshold into consooming, just ask yourself the next time you go to buy something what exactly you're going to do with it:

• Are you buying it because you genuinely want it, and have clear plans on what exactly you're going to use it for? If the answer is yes, then you're not consooming.
• Are you buying it because you feel an external obligation to? Because other people are, and you can't be left behind? Because if you don't get it now, you might never be able to find it again? Because maybe you'll use it several years from now, and it's just such a good deal you can't pass it up? Because you don't actually want the thing, but want to support the big business you're buying it from to show that you want more of this sort of thing? If the answer is yes, then you are consooming.

 

[h0387]

I just want to know what is right or what is bad.

You have come to the wrong place.

 

[NoReturn]

I just want to know what is right or what is bad.
How much is too much?
This is too much according to you guys.
But then you say its fine to hold on to some of your sentimental stuff from your childhood.

Where do you put it? Just store it in boxes and never touch them again?

People often say that autists see the world as black and white, but you're a perfect example of why that's untrue. Autists are more likely to see things as a spectrum and struggle to understand why others draw lines where they do.
So, let me give you a couple concrete examples.

Spoiler: Spoilered so I don't crap up the thread

You don't have to lock them away. You just have to change how you keep them.

Having a couple of childhood toys in your home isn't likely to raise an eyebrow if there aren't too many and they're in good condition.

Here's a rule you can use: 1 toy per 2 levels of bookshelf.
You can do more than that, but it starts to look strange. Only having the occasional toy around makes it look like an intentional aesthetic choice. (e.g. I've seen stuffed animals used as "bookends").

Next important thing to consider is cleanliness. In my bookend example above, the stuffed animals were cleaned and re-stuffed. They were visibly clean and in good shape. You don't want anything dirty, sticky, broken, etc.

Finally, presentation. If you have a bunch of matchbox cars on a shelf, it looks like a child's room. If you mount them in a shadowbox, however, now it is art.

 

[Arnold7834]

You don't have to lock them away. You just have to change how you keep them.
Having a couple of childhood toys in your home isn't likely to raise an eyebrow if there aren't too many and they're in good condition.

Here's a rule you can use: 1 toy per 2 levels of bookshelf.
You can do more than that, but it starts to look strange. Only having the occasional toy around makes it look like an intentional aesthetic choice. (e.g. I've seen stuffed animals used as "bookends").

Next important thing to consider is cleanliness. In my bookend example above, the stuffed animals were cleaned and re-stuffed. They were visibly clean and in good shape. You don't want anything dirty, sticky, broken, etc.

Finally, presentation. If you have a bunch of matchbox cars on a shelf, it looks like a child's room. If you mount them in a shadowbox, however, now it is art.

How is that any different to some of the examples shown here?

 

[TheBeanz]

How is that any different to some of the examples shown here?

Because they aren't posted on the Internet for other people's approval, it's in your house, for you.

This is the absolute crux of the consoomer attitude. You can do whatever you want with your things, you can plaster Star Wars posters across your bedroom at 36 years old, you can keep your completed Lego models on shelves, anything. What makes a consoomer (At least one type of consoomer, but I'll get to that another time) is that they spend all this money on a collection to post online as a fucking flex, and it isn't really a flex it's a tremendous waste of money.

Just think, if you hadn't come onto the farms to post about your collection of Cars movie toys, we never would have known about it and you could have done whatever you felt like with them. Instead you're in the thread, making a tit of yourself out of your own insecurity about this collection of toys you're conflicted about.

 

[Arnold7834]

Because they aren't posted on the Internet for other people's approval, it's in your house, for you.

This is the absolute crux of the consoomer attitude. You can do whatever you want with your things, you can plaster Star Wars posters across your bedroom at 36 years old, you can keep your completed Lego models on shelves, anything. What makes a consoomer (At least one type of consoomer, but I'll get to that another time) is the that they spend all this money on a collection to post online as a fucking flex, and it isn't really a flex it's a tremendous waste of money.

Just think, if you hadn't come onto the farms to post about your collection of Cars movie toys, we never would have known about it and you could have done whatever you felt like with them. Instead you're in the thread, making a tit of yourself out of your own insecurity about this collection of toys you're conflicted about.

But then you have people here calling those people who plaster that stuff as manchildren, so its obviously a problem. Even if you don't show it, you still have it that way

 

[真理子]

But then you have people here calling those people who plaster that stuff as manchildren, so its obviously a problem. Even if you don't show it, you still have it that way

Why should you care what people on kiwifarms think? Better yet, why care what everyone else thinks of you? Why does it matter if someone on the internet calls you a manchild or other names? Why care about people's "possible" perceptions of you being a manchild or whatever? Just live your own life the way you want it. Enjoy the things you like (and most importantly, don't overshare or flex on the internet).

 

[Arnold7834]

Why should you care what people on kiwifarms think? Better yet, why care what everyone else thinks of you? Why does it matter if someone on the internet calls you a manchild or other names? Why care about people's "possible" perceptions of you being a manchild or whatever? Just live your own life the way you want it. Enjoy the things you like (and most importantly, don't overshare or flex on the internet).

Oh, so i should just become like chris chan and reply "I just live my life"?

That attitude enables lolcows.

If you give advice on what is a manchild shrine and what isn't, maybe we would have less autistic spergs

 

[glass_houses]

Oh, so i should just become like chris chan and reply "I just live my life"?

That attitude enables lolcows.

If you give advice on what is a manchild shrine and what isn't, maybe we would have less autistic spergs

Listen to me: you are not going to get a precise, mathematical answer, because there isn't one. Everyone's definition of too much and too little is different.

Take this for example: I had around eight anime/other figurines, until spending too long on the Kevin Gibs thread freaked me the fuck out, and I got rid of all but three of them, plus other anime and fandom obje dar. I didn't even have much of that crap to begin with but the Gibs thread, it... does shit to you. I have left art books and a few pieces. But, and this is important, I didn't even consider culling my other things. My vase collection, my DVD and book collections, all went unmolested.

However, recently I decided to not buy anymore vases; the set of shelves I display them on are full. If I want more, I'd have to store some in boxes or move them to other shelves and that's too much, IMHO.

So there you go: two examples of limits.

My brother, on the other hand, is a minimalist, and thinks that having any vases, anime or western figurines, books or DVDs is out and out hoarding; all his books are on his iPad, he has streaming services on his TV and he despises any form of clutter.

That's a third example of limits.

My book collection gets culled whenever the stacks build up to the point I trip over them.

That's a fourth example of limits.

Everyone has limits, but where the limits are vary wildly, and no one can give you a universally determined number. If you want to keep some old toys from your childhood, that's up to you. A lot of people do that. Hell, my mum still has her old porcelain tea set and favourite doll from when she was a little girl and she's a grandmother. If, on the other hand, you have an entire room done up in a shrine to Cars and you're making regular posts about it to the internet... that's when you become a consoomer.

 

[Minx95]

Anti-consoomers who rail too hard could be lolcow material. I mean the ones who miss any nuance and blow a casket over the most innofensive purchases other people make. For every bugman in debt because of funkos theres some basement dweeling nazbol calling people soyboy consoomers for washing their teeth every day and owning more than one pair of socks, like, excuse me for sleeping in a bed with pillows instead of the floor Chairman Mao

Yeah, as I said, we need an anti-consoomer thread to balance this one out.
What we call those people is something to consider.
Idk maybe "Scrooges"?

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Yeah, as I said, we need an anti-consoomer thread to balance this one out.
What we call those people is something to consider.
Idk maybe "Scrooges"?

I think it'd be best to make the thread first and then let the replies settle on a term.

 

[Arnold7834]

What about this?