Hello dears! How do you feel about things? I'll explain my question. For example, my grandmother's generation treats things super-carefully, because in their time any thing was hard to buy, be it a set of dishes, a blanket or a jacket. So all her things are in the closet and waiting in the wings. When I ask my grandmother, why she won't get new glasses or plates to the kitchen, a new towel to the bathroom, she says: "why? I've got dishes and a towel. I'd rather give it to you!" I begin to convince her, that I don't need her dishes and bed linen and things, but she's adamant. When we buy something new, she always asks, where we put the old thing and very upset, when it finds out, that we threw it or burned. My grandmother is always very sorry to throw away something, but she will not use it for sure. So things things are on the shelves, "just in case". I agree with her, that we need to treat things carefully, to teach our children, because things get us not just, because they cost money. But I don't want to live for things. We buy things to use, not to look at them like in a museum. What's the point of a set of beautiful dishes, which is in the closet? From a new shirt or dress, which we bought, but do not wear, because we feel sorry. We often say "later", but what if "later" never comes? We should use every minute of our life: eat from beautiful plates, wear clothes that we like, change outdated equipment to new ones...
Thanks for reading!