So I got interviewed by a local newspaper about being a minimalist and dealing with the Xmas season.
If they decide to actually run a story on minimalism I am sure they will make me look like a total weirdo. haha
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So I got interviewed by a local newspaper about being a minimalist and dealing with the Xmas season.
If they decide to actually run a story on minimalism I am sure they will make me look like a total weirdo. haha
You'll have to let us read it anyway!
What do you mean MAKE ...you look like a total weirdo? :moon:Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler
In all seriousness, that's an article I'd like to read but it will probably have your real name in it. I hope you are ready to come out of the minimalist closet.
That's pretty cool.
What was that experience like?
Send us a clipping please. I'm studying Journalism in school and wonder how the reporter found you and yes, what was the experience like?
Are there still clippings?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cypress
How about a link?
I'm sure that word will fall under the same anachronistic etymology as "dialing" a phone number is today. I'm assuming today's "clippings" are individual articles/blog posts you might find anywhere. but someday journalism professors will be explaining, "The word 'clipping' comes from the old days, when people would literally 'clip' articles out of newspapers with scissors." And the students will go, "Wow, really?? (Pause) Professor, what's a 'newspaper'?"Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Good for you and depending upon how they write it, good for minimalism as a whole.
The journalist is apparently a sardonic columnist. haha
He also interviewed a friend of mine who started the minimalist group here. She said the interview with the journalist went well, though they both shared a well-meaning laugh about how minimalist I am apparently. !thumbsup!
The piece should appear next Tuesday. So we'll see how it turns out. haha
My gut feeling is you are about to learn something about narcissistic newspaper writers and lack of accuracy.
In college when I was a radical leftist I did lots and lots of interviews with the media for protests and such. I know how it goes. hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Williamsmith
Which is to say, not entirely in my favor. LOL
In addition to minimalism perhaps we should also start a new movement called "dumpy old cr@pism" (DOCism) or "dumpy old junkism" to be polite. Like people have a fantasy of what minimalist houses looks like inside, very pretty and stuff (in-arguably easy to clean, but maybe more to it than that). But if you are really truly dedicated to non-consumerism what stuff you have (whether it's a lot or not, even it's just a small amount of stuff, the "junk" or other epithet isn't meant to imply it's a lot of stuff) might be pretty dumpy as you aren't often replacing it.
An advocate of DOCism will be like: "yea these towels came from my parents house when I moved out (yea I could get newer ones at the thrift shop but that would mean *wasting* these existing ones and they still work), yea the blankets and sheets as well. Yea the furniture is Ikea bought in my early 20s (it very well may last decades, even though it's not the best stuff ever made of course, it can last longer than you think). Yea the pots and pans are whatever cheap made in China stuff I got at the same time (although if they are toxic like Teflon or something, that's an argument for replacement, but if they aren't then ...). Yea it's a cheap lamp I have in my living room, I picked up for my dorm when I was 19. Yea it's an old dumpy sofa. Yea ok so most things around here are pretty dumpy and picked long before I had any taste of my own or really any taste whatsoever, but I am a "dumpy old cr@pist" see ... I practice a principled non-consumerist philosophy called "DOCism" and reject the siren call to buy new things".
I mean seriously I weigh having nicer things with rejection of consumerism and err toward the latter. I have a decent amount of DOC that still suffices. I like to get new things sometimes too, there is some enjoyment in it. But if you really reject consumerism, then although it has less appeal than catchy phrases like "minimalism", it's often about accepting dumpy old junk for the things you have if it still suffices (not sure I'd advocate this for personal appearance like clothes as the external world judges much more harshly on that - but only people you select to will ever see your abode anyway).
ANM: I think about this sometimes, kind of, but I love the way you've expressed it. I'm not a "serial upgrader," but I take the aesthetics of my environment very seriously, probably too seriously. I always have a vision of the "perfect" whatever in my head, and that's what I need to find. Once I have it, I am good and don't want to change things with the season, or changing fashions or anything. It's definitely not conducive to frugality or minimalism.
The Beauty of having DOC is that you don't have to protect it from theft, damage, or loss. Life has less worry when you really don't care about much stuff.
Yes! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tammy
We call that style "early American attic". As in, the stuff your relatives wanted to get rid of. we raised three kids in a house furnished primarily in "early American attic". Although some of it was "midcentury curb"
LOL -- pure awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chicken lady
Zing! :laff:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chicken lady