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

BallsMcLongDong said:
Buy old analog clocks and repair them. You'd be surprised how retard easy they are to fix. And they're really fucking satisfying hearing em tick-tock away and chime on the hours.
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That sounds very thrifty, I just have no interest in it lol. I just like nixie tube clocks is all. But if you want a bullet proof alarm clock, one of those GE alarm clocks from the 90's. The fuckers just don't die.
 
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bliblblblbbllb said:
It hits close to home because my grandmother left me over 100 photo giant albums that I'm in the process of digitizing because 1) they are rotting away and 2) they take up an entire wall and if I don't do this, they're just going to be trashed.
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JoseRaulChupacabra said:
Yeah, definitely. Digitize it then keep all the precious photos in a sealed box that's water proof. Collect annotations from your family and layout the pages with the annotations alongside the photos. Print it all in C2S and bind it in hardcover. Oh, and have someone particularly sentimental in your family write an introduction.
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In my case, I'm on the fence about photos and photo albums in general. I ended up with about dozen large albums from my parents after they died - in addition to a bunch of my own albums from 20-30 years ago. All just taking up space in storage boxes in my basement.

On the one hand, it does bring back fond memories of parties, holidays, long-gone relatives, etc. But on the other hand, so many of them are repetitive, same people, same holidays, just different year. Maybe it made some sense when the events and people were recent, but literally nobody is going back to look at them now. My albums haven't been out of that box in over 15 years, and I'm sure mom's albums will end up the same way.

I know mom would sometimes sit down and flip through her old photos, reminiscing and "living in the past" as she tended to do, but that's not really my thing. Part of me regrets getting sucked into all that wasteful expense at a time when I couldn't really afford it, and ending up with thousands of photos shoved into albums that no one cares about any more.

And now the thought of spending countless hours digging through ~60 years of photos just to digitize a handful of them fills me with dread. More time spent, and for what? The past 20 years of my photos are already digital and nobody looks at those either, except the few I post on Facebook.
 
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Cuntspiracy Man said:
i dont know how people can stand the sound of clocks ticking, it drives my piss up the wall
very irritating noise

ive been looking for a mechanical alarm clock that doesnt tick, no clue how to find one
well, one i can afford that is
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Old white people version of the fire alarm chirp.
 
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Autistic Joe said:
And now the thought of spending countless hours digging through ~60 years of photos just to digitize a handful of them fills me with dread. More time spent, and for what? The past 20 years of my photos are already digital and nobody looks at those either, except the few I post on Facebook
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Old photos do come in handy sometimes. My sister has, ah, "ishoos" and some years back she started crying to me that she doesn't think our father is her biological father because she's the only redhead in the family... some old photos of our father's close relatives (who we dont speak to) shut her right up. She didn't talk to me for months after that. The peace and quiet was glorious.
 
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Autistic Joe said:
And now the thought of spending countless hours digging through ~60 years of photos just to digitize a handful of them fills me with dread. More time spent, and for what? The past 20 years of my photos are already digital and nobody looks at those either, except the few I post on Facebook.
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Photo albums are less for yourself or your children and more for those who may not ever know you, they're a connection to the past that allows us to know things that exist outside of living memory, or things that are right on the edge of passing out of living memory. They let us be connected to our past through those that came before. I never knew my great-great-grandparents, or even my 3xgreat grandparents, but photos and drawings of them exist and that allows those faces and names to remain within our family even after our own family may have forgotten them.
 
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I'm not really bothering with the 15 or so scrapbooks, each dedicated to one of my grandma's cats that died decades before I was born. Those were for her own enjoyment and she's dead. But think about all the statues they're tearing down and buildings they're renaming to retcon history: and pictures of China before it was really open to tourism, and pictures of Paris before it was covered in African migrants.

It's really feasible that within my lifetime, they'll be actively suppressing that things used to be any different. Archival isn't the same as consooming.
 
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Madden consumerism is back on the market.
 
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DrearyDoomguy said:
My personal vendetta is against Keurigs. They clog up landfills with unrecylable used pods all so the terminally lazy can save 5 minutes of work and pay significantly more for significantly lower quality coffee than if they just had a simple $20 drip coffee maker with a reusable metal filter.
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You can get reuseable pods that you fill with regular coffee like you would a traditional coffee maker. Obviously single serving only, but honestly I prefer that more since it helps me moderate my consumption.
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Photo albums are less for yourself or your children and more for those who may not ever know you, they're a connection to the past that allows us to know things that exist outside of living memory, or things that are right on the edge of passing out of living memory. They let us be connected to our past through those that came before. I never knew my great-great-grandparents, or even my 3xgreat grandparents, but photos and drawings of them exist and that allows those faces and names to remain within our family even after our own family may have forgotten them.
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I met neither of my biological grandfathers. It's really cool to just flip through and see how they were as a person. For instance, one of my grandfathers was very vulgar for his generation. It's cool to see photos of him being goofy and relaxed despite never knowing him, but I could tell I would of liked him. My favorite quote of his is "If I die, I hope I reincarnate into a cute women's bicycle seat". Fuckin lmao.
 
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Corpun said:
Of course his custom funko tries to make him look suoer badass and shit even though he is probably a fat balding fuck.

Maui is going to be such a toxic wasteland from all those melted plastic funkos though.
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Imagine how many just like him got their toys melted. Probably more toxicity than all the nuclear testing from the 50s
 
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>funko pops
Hmm, yummy, microplastics EVERYWHERE. The production and testing of nuclear weapons created less of an ecological long-term footprint than all the crap that goes into plastic consoomer merch. This world is so fucked, enviromentally speaking, that it doesn't need for climate change to make Earth a hellscape.
 
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