Material Boy?

[Danugh]

How attached are you to your material possesions?

My phone dropped in water and it stopped working and i had a mini panic attack. There was life before the cellphone but now that i had it for a period i got very attached and it was integrated into my life. A friend told me to bake my phone and i did and now its back up and running - what a relief.

But its not just the phone its other things too that i know i would freak out about if they stopped working or if the back up files crashed too.


So then how are attached are you to material things? Is it a case of no big deal, "i can just buy a new one"? or would you experience mild depression if one of your possesions got stolen, lost, crashed, burnt etc.?

 

[twardmo]

I actually cried when i wrecked my car LOL. but other than my car, stereo, computer, tv, well maybe i am a material person

 

[JakeBequette]

My phone dropped in water and it stopped working and i had a mini panic attack. There was life before the cellphone but now that i had it for a period i got very attached and it was integrated into my life. A friend told me to bake my phone and i did and now its back up and running - what a relief.

There goes that flow again... Thank god the water didn't cause any of the electrical workings of your phone to short out, and the steam from baking your phone caused no damage *relief*​

 

[JakeBequette]

great response jake

these dumb asses need to learn that coming in posting garbage all the time is not going to accomplish anything

life is life, it has always been good and bad and i doubt it will ever change

how we cope with it says a lot, you'll never get anywhere running around being a flappy head queen

get out there and find out !!!

That just made me laugh so hard I peed a little ​

 

[me12121]

when it comes to cell phones and computers that hold vital info that u need for work in school.

Thanks for reminding me to back up my lecture notes for the week! I actually haven't done it in 2 weeks. I backup everything vital to my google account every week so that I wouldn't care too much if I lost my laptop or something. It would suck to lose a few months worth of notes and then have nothing to study from for exams.

 

[JakeBequette]

now me says it all, he backs up his google but not the stuff thats gonna get him somewhere in life, doh! doh! doh!


i think my point is proven

I believe he means that he backs up his lecture notes IN his google account...​

 

[me12121]

I believe he means that he backs up his lecture notes IN his google account...​

Yes, I backup all my notes to googlepages, which gives me 100MB for free. That way, I can access them from anywhere.

 

[me12121]

well then thats even worse

what liability to google except

if u want to get anywhere in life you have to take responsibility for yourself and the things that are most important to you

you should be a lot more selective in whom you are placing your life and future in

whats wrong with backing up to a cd or dvd, they are cheap enough and under your control

Uh, I backup to a flash drive as well. Ever heard of off-site backup? That's why I backup to google. And you say you've been in IT for 20 years.

 

[Dobson73]

They're all material posessions. Nothing more.

I don't backup my PC, I have friends nmbrs stored in my home phone or in my diary but if I lost them I know where they all live anyway.

At least no one died or was hurt. A cell phone can be replaced, huh? A friend or a life can't be.

 

[Orlandude]

In the final analysis and grand scheme of things, material possessions mean nothing.

If you have ever been the victim of a flood, tornado, hurricane, earthquake, mudslide, brush fire or any number of nature's offerings, you would know that.

Everything can be replaced except your life. That makes material possessions way down low on the totem pole of vital importance.

 

[MidnightPrism]

Well I can't afford to replace anything so I would be upset if something got broken

 

[Swellegant]

I get very attached to my possessions... I hate it when I lose anything (like when I turned a corner too sharply with my window open and a bunch of CDs flew out of the holder and out the window), or have to throw something away (like when my carpet got mildewed to such an extent that it was unfixable), or when I grow out of a favorite garment (which I've been doing with increasing frequency of late), or have to replace anything with something else (I loved getting a new car, but I hated saying goodbye to my old car). And it tore my heart to get rid of all those books and videos that I don't even intend to read/watch again... just the very idea of reducing the amount of stuff I own makes me sad.

I'm not very attached to my cell-phone, though. But if my computer broke down, I'd totally flip... not because of the loss of a material possession, but because of the loss of my main source of entertainment and information.

 

[Jeimuzu]

If I broke anything like that, I'd be so pissed off. Thing is, I can't just get a new one, or whatever. I'm a student. I'm planning to live the next week or so off £10-20, or so, and with an invoice of £100 sat on my bed...

 

[Leidian]

Well, someone on this thread has a few too many reliable back-up devices backing up his system!!!

 

[trawler69]

I've killed my posesions so many times in the past that I almost don't care. I've drowned phones, had boats sunk with all my worldly goods etc. Computers die on me but I do now make a backup of stuff on a seperate hard drive. But if the boat sinks, as it tried to a couple of weeks ago, that goes too. I'm pretty much used to starting all over again, but I will say that as I get older I would prefer not to.