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I've actually become more materialistic, but in a "I want more tools so I can learn more skills and do more things" sort of way.

I want to brew my own beer and make my own cheese. Experience tells me I enjoy things I make with my hands much much more than when I buy them.

Yes yes yes to the tea!

Also good tea sets in a variety of forms. I have a teeny set for travel, large set for hotels and where I have luggage to carry it around, and I want to eventually get a full GongFu tea table with integrated drain and kettle filling station.

What I love about it is it's really cheap. The most expensive tea I have is $4 per session and it's delicious 😋

I just went through a big purge of stuff a few years ago. At first it was difficult to let go of the I-may-need-it-someday thoughts about things I haven't used or seen in 5+ years. Then it occurred to me that if I do need this thing I can always buy it later. It became much easier to donate most of the stuff. And honestly, today I couldn't even tell you what I got rid of, which tells me how unimportant it really was in my life.

I’m selling everything right now, too. I’m over stuff.

I’m old, and I have learned that things mean less and less as you get older.

I was gonna agree with you because at first I thought you just meant like words haha.

Nothing means anything, people just say make sounds with their mouth and the dictionary is useless. But yeah physical things also, we're all flesh and bones, just cherish that while you can, seen enough shiny pretty things in my life that im over them.

We're just barely over 40 and are taking stock over the massive quantity of things we've built up. We have a ton of stuff from previous times in our lives that still work, but we haven't used in 5, or even 10, years. Some examples are easier, like college text books. Others are a bit more fraught like my original PlayStation, Dreamcast, and Xbox that all still work, but just aren't getting used.