What makes us happy or helps us

Goatworshiper said:

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[quote]I love it when the postman brings me vinyl records.[/quote]

Ooh, that's reminded me of something really odd that makes me happy:

New things.

Doesn't matter too much what it is, but I really like the 'newness' of new things. In fact I often want to preserve that 'new' quality for as long as possible, and won't open, or use, something, even when I've bought it for a specific purpose or use.

I am the same with regard to new things. I worry about spoiling new things through wear and tear, and want to preserve the new quality. This, however, ruined my 8th birthday, when I opened some plastercine and played with a strip, only to spend the day worrying that I had 'messed up' my new present.

I find what Scorpion and Hope are saying very interesting. I too am obsessed with preserving newness. I have PVC sleeves for all of my records (which is many thousands, for too many to count regardless). I also hate marks on cd's, sometimes I will by a cd if it doesnt look new of replace it's plastic case. 

I am very carefull with new clothes to keep them new for as long as possible. I have a nitemare everytime I buy a new (to me) car. I can never afford new, but I still think that a car thats maybe 4-5years old shouldn't be a mess: the wider world must disagree. So therefore what may take someone else a couple of weeks may take me 12 weeks. 

My stereo is 13 years old and it still looks in brand new condition. 

I can't stand books that are falling to peices either, they drive me nuts.

Actually, I'm not quite that 'bad' (if you don't mind me using that word).

Certain things I like to look as near to 'new' as possible - like books - I hate it when people crease the cover or 'break' the spine ("ARGH! The clue is in the word 'break'!!!")

Oh, and my 3yr old laptop has the plastic film still stuck on the top, protecting the nice shiny finish (that I can't see because of the plastic film) and until very recently still even had the plastic sheet that sat between the keyboard and the screen still in place (the tape holding it on the side of the screen started coming un-stuck though).

But more generally, I'm not super protective of stuff, but I will leave off opening something, particularly if it involves removing an outer wrapping of shrink-wrap, for as long as possible, to preserve that newness. However, once opened I don't go to any particular lengths to protect anything.

And once they're damaged, or worn, they lose a certain something, but it's not the end of the world, and I don't throw those things away.

(I'm really bad at throwing things away in general)

And, in fact, with clothes, in a sense, I'm the complete opposite - I really like old looking clothes, and will wear stuff until it's (literally) falling to pieces (which really annoys my Mum).

So, for me it's no so much about preserving that newness, but that having and opening new things makes me happy in a way that I don't experience in any other context.

Goatworshiper said:

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[quote]I love it when the postman brings me vinyl records.[/quote]

Ooh, that's reminded me of something really odd that makes me happy:

New things.

Doesn't matter too much what it is, but I really like the 'newness' of new things. In fact I often want to preserve that 'new' quality for as long as possible, and won't open, or use, something, even when I've bought it for a specific purpose or use.

I am the same with regard to new things. I worry about spoiling new things through wear and tear, and want to preserve the new quality. This, however, ruined my 8th birthday, when I opened some plastercine and played with a strip, only to spend the day worrying that I had 'messed up' my new present.

I find what Scorpion and Hope are saying very interesting. I too am obsessed with preserving newness. I have PVC sleeves for all of my records (which is many thousands, for too many to count regardless). I also hate marks on cd's, sometimes I will by a cd if it doesnt look new of replace it's plastic case. 

I am very carefull with new clothes to keep them new for as long as possible. I have a nitemare everytime I buy a new (to me) car. I can never afford new, but I still think that a car thats maybe 4-5years old shouldn't be a mess: the wider world must disagree. So therefore what may take someone else a couple of weeks may take me 12 weeks. 

My stereo is 13 years old and it still looks in brand new condition. 

I can't stand books that are falling to peices either, they drive me nuts.

Actually, I'm not quite that 'bad' (if you don't mind me using that word).

Certain things I like to look as near to 'new' as possible - like books - I hate it when people crease the cover or 'break' the spine ("ARGH! The clue is in the word 'break'!!!")

Oh, and my 3yr old laptop has the plastic film still stuck on the top, protecting the nice shiny finish (that I can't see because of the plastic film) and until very recently still even had the plastic sheet that sat between the keyboard and the screen still in place (the tape holding it on the side of the screen started coming un-stuck though).

But more generally, I'm not super protective of stuff, but I will leave off opening something, particularly if it involves removing an outer wrapping of shrink-wrap, for as long as possible, to preserve that newness. However, once opened I don't go to any particular lengths to protect anything.

And once they're damaged, or worn, they lose a certain something, but it's not the end of the world, and I don't throw those things away.

(I'm really bad at throwing things away in general)

And, in fact, with clothes, in a sense, I'm the complete opposite - I really like old looking clothes, and will wear stuff until it's (literally) falling to pieces (which really annoys my Mum).

So, for me it's no so much about preserving that newness, but that having and opening new things makes me happy in a way that I don't experience in any other context.