bob-loblaw
dm me if you wanna move to rural montana
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Ever since I was a kid, I've been enamored with vintage items and antiques, especially obsolete luxury products like fountain pens and mechanical watches.
Now that I've finally got some pocket change due to a certain stock that I like a lot, I've been using the current state of affairs to purchase all kinds of wonderful antiques. These things are generally priced low simply since they are out of fashion or require a simple repair. I've started living like a king with luxuries that have fallen out of style -- despite remote work, I dress up in a proper suit and tie (they don't get dirty since I don't sweat or go anywhere) and listening to loads of older music i.e. Sinatra. I eat midcentury foods, like eggs and bacon for breakfast, cheap cuts of beef, spam, white bread, jello, full-sugar coke etc, and once I turn 21 in a few months I can start smoking cigars again (I could legally smoke 2 years ago, but now I am underage since they raised it to 21. Thanks government!) The only thing I'm missing is a car -- am eyeing a few used lexuses from the 90s that beat the pants off of the cheap botnet ecoshite coming out these days.
Maybe this is a stupid cope, but the optimism of 20th century America almost seems to channel itself through the products of its time. Makes me feel a whole lot more hopeful about the world than the cheap crap that's over-engineered rather than over-built (i.e. planned obsolescence vs. built for life).
Anyone else cope with vintage luxuries?
Now that I've finally got some pocket change due to a certain stock that I like a lot, I've been using the current state of affairs to purchase all kinds of wonderful antiques. These things are generally priced low simply since they are out of fashion or require a simple repair. I've started living like a king with luxuries that have fallen out of style -- despite remote work, I dress up in a proper suit and tie (they don't get dirty since I don't sweat or go anywhere) and listening to loads of older music i.e. Sinatra. I eat midcentury foods, like eggs and bacon for breakfast, cheap cuts of beef, spam, white bread, jello, full-sugar coke etc, and once I turn 21 in a few months I can start smoking cigars again (I could legally smoke 2 years ago, but now I am underage since they raised it to 21. Thanks government!) The only thing I'm missing is a car -- am eyeing a few used lexuses from the 90s that beat the pants off of the cheap botnet ecoshite coming out these days.
Maybe this is a stupid cope, but the optimism of 20th century America almost seems to channel itself through the products of its time. Makes me feel a whole lot more hopeful about the world than the cheap crap that's over-engineered rather than over-built (i.e. planned obsolescence vs. built for life).
Anyone else cope with vintage luxuries?