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

[Scuffed Marisa]

at least the stuff older gens collected actually keeps, and i still can't respect the people who just toss it in the bin
even giving it away for free if you might as well be rid of it is better, and these are the whiny bastards that complain about the environment but they refuse to use old, reliable and reusable things because putting on a show of "nyeh! nyeh! fuck you grandma nyeh! i hatechu! fuck your cups!" is more important than just using them like actual cups, they may not be worth bank but there's always someone looking for it even if just to use it for the intended purpose and tossing it all out is in most cases just a big rebellious show, like getting an ugly haircut as soon as you leave for college
i don't care how you paint it, i can't respect that sort of wastefulness

within the same amount of time everything this generation has amassed will be plastic goop clogging the wheels of a forklift somewhere, nothing remaining but the metal that makes up the chinky dinky cheap LED lights inside

You're way off the mark. Boomers and people in general leave behind maybe 1% of stuff that's usable, the rest is several sets of cheap plates, cups and cutlery that nobody wants, needs or has ever been used but was bought because grandma liked the cheap designs and fat little angels. Anyone older can testify that there was never a moment in time when cutlery, plates and cups were such a huge fucking issue that they had to rely on hand-me-downs or mercy-plates from someone. In equal measure everyone older (and it seems lots of people in the last few replies) can testify that every antique store and online auctions are filled to the brim with cheap porcelain nobody wants, needs or can even sell.

Do you know what's the first to go, what boomers sell off first? Actually valuable stuff. My grandmother liquidated all my grandfathers valuable and expensive tools and used the money to buy plastic shit, porcelain shit, and similar worthless trinkets. This has happened decades ago so it's not a recent event for me, but I'm willing to put my nuts on the chopping block and say that a shitload of people reading this have had the same goddamn experience. Boomers leave NOTHING valuable to their progeny. No tools, no art, no durable machines, nothing. Nada. Zip. They immediately sell everything worthwhile to fund their addictions to grandma shit, cruises, casinoes and so on and on, leaving behind nothing but mountains of trash they try to bullshit us into seeing as "heirlooms" while the actual, real, tangible heirlooms were sold off long ago. And again - this process will repeat with my millennial generation. There's hundreds of thousands of people out there pissing away money on plastic funko pop shit, retro consoles, all sorts of meaningless "collectibles" and so on. Only the smart people out there will one day go "Here son, have this Rolex I bought after years of saving" or more realistically something like "Here son, these are my stocks/gold bullion/mint condition WW1 rifle" or something, anything that has actual fucking value.

Also I'm pretty sure that everything Star Wars is rapidly becoming unsellable and worthless, so anyone that wasted their life on 1970s Luke Skywalker shit and so on will soon realize it went from gold to shit. Just a thought.

 

[NoReturn]

This has happened decades ago so it's not a recent event for me, but I'm willing to put my nuts on the chopping block and say that a shitload of people reading this have had the same goddamn experience.

It's true to such a degree that you can find much better quality items places like consignment and secondhand stores even if they pay the seller a token dollar. I've found some great shit at antique stores that do consignment/reselling that are very obviously from estate sales (things like cast iron, multitools, etc.)
There are some regions you can visit where you can even directly compare "this was sold while the owner or their partner was alive" stores to "this is what was there when the family was cleaning out the house" stores and see the difference.

 

[mr_negativity]

When my grandma died I inherited her fry pan.



Actually it is a very awesome fry pan and one of my prized possessions. They used ultra fine grain sand on the cooking surface. It's practically smooth as glass. They also took care to make it as thin as possible without cracking. It will outlive me if I take care of it. The modern Lodge brand pans use coarse sand. Today you'd have to buy one of those CNC machined pans and polish it down to equal to what I got.

I have the dishes from most of the years of my childhood. I've lost quite a few of them to breakage, only to buy replacement patterns on ebay. It's not fine china, but the everyday dishes.

Cookware and chinaware passed down does have an emotional connection. Fine china doesn't have much value to Gen X beyond because it was the forbidden dishes only rarely used. However, the bowls that held our alpha bits while we watched Saturday morning cartoons is what we would value, not the expensive stuff locked away in the China cabinet.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

When my grandma died I inherited her fry pan.

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Actually it is a very awesome fry pan and one of my prized possessions. They used ultra fine grain sand on the cooking surface. It's practically smooth as glass. They also took care to make it as thin as possible without cracking. It will outlive me if I take care of it. The modern Lodge brand pans use coarse sand. Today you'd have to buy one of those CNC machined pans and polish it down to equal to what I got.

I have the dishes from most of the years of my childhood. I've lost quite a few of them to breakage, only to buy replacement patterns on ebay. It's not fine china, but the everyday dishes.

Cookware and chinaware passed down does have an emotional connection. Fine china doesn't have much value to Gen X beyond because it was the forbidden dishes only rarely used. However, the bowls that held our alpha bits while we watched Saturday morning cartoons is what we would value, not the expensive stuff locked away in the China cabinet.

This is so true. I have three cast irons from the 50s that were my grandmas. They are amazing and I adore them. The last part is especially true, I find myself wishing I still had the plastic cups I used to drink milk or lemonade out of. I have the fine china, but I miss those cups.

 

[retard strength II]

This is all pretty sad. Old people I knew/know weren't having a fun time jet-setting around the world blowing every penny and laughing as they sell their home just to leave some old plates behind to the family, they are being turbo-fucked by retarded medical/high COL expenses. Adult children aren't able or won't move back to the house, so they have to sell it. I can't even blame shitty retirement planning because a lot of them were widowed, got a cancer, or lost an adult child unexpectedly which ate up more money than they planned. I don't know if that makes me lucky, to not encounter the more greedy situations. Usually the greed is from all the useless extended family right as the elderly passes but before the body is cold. It sucks to know the elderly tbh.

e: On a positive note, old tools are one of the cooler small things to inherit alongside coins, guns, and cast iron.

 

[NoReturn]

This is all pretty sad. Old people I knew/know weren't having a fun time jet-setting around the world blowing every penny and laughing as they sell their home just to leave some old plates behind to the family, they are being turbo-fucked by retarded medical/high COL expenses.

Usually the greed is from all the useless extended family right as the elderly passes but before the body is cold. It sucks to know the elderly tbh.

How old were they? I say this because I've had the opportunity to know the elderly as well, and as I've aged it's been pretty wild to see the differences between the WWII-generation, the Silents, and now the Boomers.
The WWII women were the strangest to me. I can think of two distinct cases where women had a complete personality shift after their husbands died. Even if it was just the two of them, it's weird it happened twice.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I can think of two distinct cases where women had a complete personality shift after their husbands died. Even if it was just the two of them, it's weird it happened twice.

Lol this happened with my Grandma. When Grandpa died, Grandma became more fun.

Literally up until his death he was trying to buy himself a legacy

 

[Protistology]

How old were they? I say this because I've had the opportunity to know the elderly as well, and as I've aged it's been pretty wild to see the differences between the WWII-generation, the Silents, and now the Boomers.
The WWII women were the strangest to me. I can think of two distinct cases where women had a complete personality shift after their husbands died. Even if it was just the two of them, it's weird it happened twice.

Widows bloom, widowers rot

-Japanese proverb

 

[Thiletonomics]

Back to consooming at hand, some people's consooming habits go as far as filling their room right up to the ceiling with merch, as this example room filled to the brim with Love Live! merch:



How far do these people go, just to see what their room fills up to be, and only then realizing what they could have gotten with all of the money spent on merchandise? I'm sure that you could get a used car, had this not happened. Or are these diehard consoomers too far into denial to think anything else but to make their collections bigger?

 

[Protistology]

Back to consooming at hand, some people's consooming habits go as far as filling their room right up to the ceiling with merch, as this example room filled to the brim with Love Live! merch:

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How far do these people go, just to see what their room fills up to be, and only then realizing what they could have gotten with all of the money spent on merchandise? I'm sure that you could get a used car, had this not happened. Or are these diehard consoomers too far into denial to think anything else but to make their collections bigger?

I saw a poll of female anime fans in Japan about what they were looking for in a man. "Not a Love Live fan" was a common response.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Back to consooming at hand, some people's consooming habits go as far as filling their room right up to the ceiling with merch, as this example room filled to the brim with Love Live! merch:

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How far do these people go, just to see what their room fills up to be, and only then realizing what they could have gotten with all of the money spent on merchandise? I'm sure that you could get a used car, had this not happened. Or are these diehard consoomers too far into denial to think anything else but to make their collections bigger?

One of the biggest issues Consoomers have is that most of the time, it isn't one big purchase but a long string of impulsive purchases. It's difficult to pull the trigger on buying a $10,000 car, but it's easy to spend around $200 a month on a hobby and blow $10k over the course of a few years. It also doesn't help that they get a small dopamine hit from adding to their collection that you don't get from buying boring important things like a used car, or work clothes.

I saw a poll of female anime fans in Japan about what they were looking for in a man. "Not a Love Live fan" was a common response.

GuP Chads keep winning!

 

[Phil's Oddly Shaped Head]

If you honest to god wanna tell me there is not an ubundance

Ooh-Fa!!!!

 

[Patty Q. Anonlinson]

When my grandma died I inherited her fry pan.

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Actually it is a very awesome fry pan and one of my prized possessions. They used ultra fine grain sand on the cooking surface. It's practically smooth as glass. They also took care to make it as thin as possible without cracking. It will outlive me if I take care of it. The modern Lodge brand pans use coarse sand. Today you'd have to buy one of those CNC machined pans and polish it down to equal to what I got.

I have the dishes from most of the years of my childhood. I've lost quite a few of them to breakage, only to buy replacement patterns on ebay. It's not fine china, but the everyday dishes.

Cookware and chinaware passed down does have an emotional connection. Fine china doesn't have much value to Gen X beyond because it was the forbidden dishes only rarely used. However, the bowls that held our alpha bits while we watched Saturday morning cartoons is what we would value, not the expensive stuff locked away in the China cabinet.

Ah memories - any little pavement ape caught drinking from the wrong water fountain back then got a taste of that bad boy on the back of the head. That ol'gal sure had one MEAN frying pan swinging arm.

 

[holykentuckyfriedrice]

I saw a poll of female anime fans in Japan about what they were looking for in a man. "Not a Love Live fan" was a common response.

It's cool guys, he's just a good Christian man trying to stay pure.

 

[Barry Williams]

plastic funko pop shit, retro consoles, all sorts of meaningless "collectibles" and so on

I'm planning on retiring on the money I get when I flip my copy of Slam City with Scottie Pippen for the Sega CD. That's a four fuckin disc basketball FMV game. Gonna be worth a fortune. We'll see who's laughing in 30 years, buddy.

 

[I am Jack's dead arm]

I'm planning on retiring on the money I get when I flip my copy of Slam City with Scottie Pippen for the Sega CD. That's a four fuckin disc basketball FMV game. Gonna be worth a fortune. We'll see who's laughing in 30 years, buddy.

But is it the 32X version? That's where the real money is. And of course you have to play (aka post pics/videos of the opening demo loop) it on all original model 1 hardware otherwise it's not legit.

Fuck I hate the retro gaming scene nowadays. Went the emulator route. Just play the games you wanna play.

 

[Summertime]

Has anyone in this thread mentioned Character.ai/c.ai? It's the go-to site for younger Gen Z girls to have a parasocial relationship with fictional characters from consoomer culture. If a character exists, someone has taken the effort and dedication to make a language model out of it. Some are addicted to that website.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Troydan is back with the fast food consooming. This time, he’s eating everything he could find from the Dairy Queen menu:

Those eyes look like he‘s seen a lot before trying this “challenge” of a video.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Those eyes look like he‘s seen a lot before trying this “challenge” of a video.

The real challenge is how far YOU CAN RUN!

 

[Emerson_Lake_and_Palmer_2]

Has anyone in this thread mentioned Character.ai/c.ai? It's the go-to site for younger Gen Z girls to have a parasocial relationship with fictional characters from consoomer culture. If a character exists, someone has taken the effort and dedication to make a language model out of it. Some are addicted to that website.

No but those people are genuinely brain-rotted that it is not even funny anymore, society is on the line.