Originally Posted by
hnsq
I know how my questions sound, but I am honestly not trying to start an argument.
To be candid, I am asking because after reading through this thread, I got the impression that many people live the 'simple life' out of ego. "Look at me, I am living with so much less than the rest of those suckers who don't get it".
That was my first impression after reading this thread in its entirety, and I am simply trying to understand the viewpoints more, to see what the reasons behind these attitudes are. I am essentially trying to see if it is actually ego, or if my first impression was cynical and incorrect.
Perhaps you've never heard of this living simply attitude before. Surely all of us have heard of religious people who take vows of poverty or some type of restrictions on personal pleasure. Living simply doesn't go that far for most of the people writing in this thread. I'm envious of the people who live with very little.
Tomorrow I could just dump everything I don't want into the dumpster and be living a simpler less cluttered life. I could dump everything and live with even less. My mental block on doing that is I'm a penny pincher and would hate to not get some money from all of those items. I could use the few thousand dollars that these items will bring.