Originally Posted by
gerv
My first thought was "Anybody who take so much mental energy to put together a list of personal things... an inventory, really... seems to be really attached to these things."
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Originally Posted by
Newspaperguy
I don't like the idea of conspicuous consumption but neither do I like the idea of a 100 Things Challenge. Both push me towards something resembling a competition to have or have not.
I keep a well deatiled inventory of everything I have. I am somewhere in the middle as well, don't want to over consume but don't want to limit myself to some number either. I have my inventory to help determine if I actually need/want something.
For example tools can save me a lot of time and money, no needing to find the time to take a bike to the shop and pay labor when its quicker and easier to just do it myself, but I do need tools for that. So looking in my garage I have well over 100 tools but they are inventoried and organized. I can look at my list when determining weather or not to buy another tool and tell if it will fit in with what I already have, i.e. is it too redundant with others, where will I store it, etc.