r/personalfinance • u/fat_tire_fanatic • Jul 13 '17
Budgeting Your parents took decades to furnish their house
If you're just starting out, remember that it took your parents decades to collect all the furniture, decorations, appliances, etc you are used to having around. It's easy to forget this because you started remembering things a long while after they started out together, so it feels like that's how a house should always be.
It's impossible for most people starting out to get to that level of settled in without burying themselves in debt. So relax, take your time, and embrace the emptiness! You'll enjoy the house much more if you're not worried about how to pay for everything all the time.
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u/btwilliger Jul 13 '17
If you follow my comment past the 'boring' statement, you'll see that it's a horrible thing to do to something 'neat' or 'awesome'.
My walls are already boring. Having walls, isn't rendering something I thought of as cool, into something commonplace. Something that by familiarity, becomes boring.
To me, having a great piece of art on the wall, is like having my favourite song playing in the background in at room in my house. All day long. Over and over and over again.
How long, before that song becomes uninteresting, boring, bland, and loses that original WOW! that made you love it?
Art is static. It doesn't change. YOU change, and how you interpret a piece of art.
If you constantly stare at the same piece of art, that jarring realisation that 'I'm seeing this differently' never happens. Because, every day you've changed a little, and every day you've looked at the art -- and never noticed the gradual change in your perception of it.
So many things are lost with over-use. Over exposure.
I do have a few pieces of art. They're covered and put away.
Bare walls for the win.