There's nothing new in the idea of having everything you own fit in a backpack while you couch-surf, but there's also no virtue in it. Really, super-minimalists annoy me just as much as those couples on HGTV whose three-bedroom house isn't big enough for them, and they're really the same kinds of people - it's just that the thing that they use to try and make other people feel less important is a lack of possessions rather than an abundance of them.
Living like that also suggest that these folks don't have any hobbies that don't involve their electronics. While I suppose there's nothing wrong with that per se, I couldn't do it. My favorite hobbies are very tangible (knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, collage) and there's something incredibly satisfying about making something with your own two hands that I just don't get when I'm using a computer.
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Date: 2010-08-18 07:14 pm (UTC)Living like that also suggest that these folks don't have any hobbies that don't involve their electronics. While I suppose there's nothing wrong with that per se, I couldn't do it. My favorite hobbies are very tangible (knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, collage) and there's something incredibly satisfying about making something with your own two hands that I just don't get when I'm using a computer.