Materialistic vs. Emotional/Sentimental attachment

[domino43]

So, Corie's out here watching "Clean House" and we started discussing how they go through your stuff and see what they can sell to get money to fix things up and/or get new stuff (which seems futile to me, but...)

Corie was saying how she would get rid of anything to get nicer stuff or things like curtains/carpet for the house. Pauly and I agreed that there are certain things we would NOT sell, no matter what. She brought up that on the show they would ask me if they could sell my china cabinet. I told her that I'd tell them "If you touch it, your hand will be lost." And I mean it. I hav vowed to severely harm anyone that tried to do something with it. She was saying she'd easiy get rid of it because it could get money. No regard for the fact that it ws my grandma's and was a fixture of my childhood and has been promised to me since I was born. If it was up to her, she'd get rid of it. She also said if it was up to her, she'd get rid of brother's 250-300 records. We were both flabberghasted at that. Espescially coming from someone that supposedly likes music. She listens to music all the time, but she'd easliy get rid of all those records. Wha?? "but they look ugly in those plastic crates and they take up space. They're just wasting space." #1, they're purposely in those crates. Records belong in crates! #2, there's no such thing as records wasting space. She said she'd get rid of the records and use the money for things the house needs like curtains or carpeting. Huh? How do you trade awesome records for stupid, plain old curtains?

We were asking how she can NOT have anything she wouldn't get attached to and keep. She brought up living with deadbeat cousin who would refuse to buy food and things for the kids so she had to sell anything she had long ago. Now she refuses to form an attachment. I think that's not human, but...

Anyway, I was wondering how you all felt. Would you easily and readily get rid of anything and everything you had for some money? Or are there some things you'd have to be convinced to get rid of? Never get rid of no matter what?

Comments

[urgayleswoman.livejournal.com]

I watch Clean House too and yeah it bothers me when they force the families to get rid of heirlooms. They pressure them. There's a better show called Clean Sweep on The Learning Channel. They put everything out in the yard and separate it into piles so it's not about making money. I think Clean House is a neat show but the purpose is sometimes lost because they're trying to make money to use for the revamping. It's on more often than Clean Sweep so we always watch it. It inspires us to clean and organize because we need to!

[domino43.livejournal.com]

I noticed that too and it kind of annoyed me. If I tell you no, I mean no, not 'keep bugging and pressuring me until you get your way.' Like the new one from tonight. The woman said that every Saturday night they go to a friends house and play games. They always bring the games because they have so many. Some of the games are older and really hard to find. The guy kept bugging her until she finally put them in the garage sale, even though she was clearly upset about it.

[urgayleswoman.livejournal.com]

Oh and to answer your question every time I see that show I think if they were to come to my house the most obvious thing they'd want to get rid of is my Aragorn Standee. It takes up space and isn't very decorative but I love it. They can have just about everything else. We don't have a lot of great stuff here in the first place.

[hermione0.livejournal.com]

Not easily and readily, no. Sounds like she's been through the ringer. I have a friend who moved a dozen times in the first two years I knew him, and each time he had to get rid of stuff. He still mourns some of the stuff he had to let go.

There are things that would take convincing. I don't think I have anything that I wouldn't get rid of no matter what -- that's an absolute that I wouldn't want to tempt. Who knows what fate awaits, you know? But I would have a difficult time with some of it.

[caranglamiel.livejournal.com]

I watch that show too sometimes. They probably wouldn't want me on there, lol. I lean towards majorly sentimental about things but then others not so much, but the things I want to keep you just better watch out, hehe. Like they would risk bodily harm if they touched my grandmother's dressers. We had to pretty much steal them back from the asshole son of my grandfather's second wife after she died (long story).

Another show that drove me nuts was Trading Spaces, the way they'd paint over nice wood furniture and take down every single ceiling fan they came across. Guess they'd never spent a summer down south. :)

[dragonxheart.livejournal.com]

I had a solid walnut table and hutch that my aunt gave me years ago. I loved it. I remember being little and cleaning it for her w/ Pledge. It had lots of nooks and cranies so it would take a loooong time.

I was very attached to it and vowed never to part with it.

Then I got divorced.

Then it wouldn't fit in my new house. :(

I gave it to the X because he said he would save it for Connor.

We will see.

Sometimes you just have to part w/ things. It sucks...but life goes on.