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Redditor hoarding inks with post comments ranging from "Your descendants will still be trying to use up that collection!" to "Thanks for making me feel less bad, about the amount of inks I have!" 

https://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/1jztwdg/time_to_catalog_my_ink_collectionbut_how/

>>3955
This may be an unpopular opinion but I think one is enough.

>>3953
Man these fountain pen nerds drive me nuts. They'll have the same model of a $110 pen in different colorways. Fountain pens are cool, you can get a good one for like $3, and enough ink for it for years for $10. It's nuts that this has become this unreal dragon hoarding of inks that are gonna go bad.

>>3959
I can understand the urge of seeing a pretty color and thinking "well, I don't have a purple ink yet..." or "well, this one is a dark green and I only have a light green" but once you think rationally about it, all of that ink takes a while to use and in my experience, a small bottle can last a whole year of daily journaling, if not more (obviously, each person writes a different amount so it might be different give or take). You'd think at some point the fountain pen enthusiasts would realize they have far more than they could ever possibly use, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

>>3960
That’s why I like companies that sell samples. I can get a 1ml sample of a pretty ink and enjoy it to the fullest and empty the ink thing. I’m usually tired of the color by then anyway.

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I know it's common fan behavior, but the way people spend on their favorite actor or singer's merchandise is crazy. I stumbled upon this account today of a fan of the actors Pruk Panich and NuNew. She buys a bunch of merch related to them and the one guy's fashion brand. Sometimes she picks it up from other fans in Thailand that hold it for her, other times she ships it to the USA. I can understand buying a few things from a beloved celebrity, especially if it's cute merch, but at some point, it becomes excessive. It doesn't help that it seems like celebrity culture has really accelerated these days and every celebrity is selling his or her own line of random stuff. Even when I go to the supermarket, I see celebrity branded foods for sale.

>>4160
>we started packing at 8pm, finished after 1am
Unreal.
I agree with you about merch. Usually merch sucks and is generic crap anyway. Like oh a redbubble tshirt upcharged $40? Sign me up. I remember seeing reviewbrah had merch and I frankly expected some kind of suit endorsement or hair pomade, but… it’s a shitty hoodie. Like what? Who wants that?

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I don't understand why so many people strive to feel as though they live in a store instead of a home.

>>4329
I think this is actually useful?

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motorcycle consoomer

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Is there a thread for talking about personal consooming? Or is this the catch all?

>>5769
I guess it's a catch-all.

>>5769
it's slow enough that I don't see why we'd need two different ones really

>have friend who buys little trinkets all the time
>"oh nonna I never have any money to do fun things like you do, how do you do it"
>suggest stop buying little trinkets
>"but they're the only thing that makes me happy!"
how does someone end up like this?

>>5781
Honestly, I think it's a result of too much time on social media. My urge to buy dumb stuff went down tremendously once I deleted my Instagram account, which makes sense because the entire point of instagram is you follow "artists" on there who constantly make posts and stories about their new products, and then the friends on there constantly share their hauls, which creates a worldview that this level of consumption is totally normal and that you'll be sad if you don't buy something because it's a limited time item. It's like this on every social media really: tiktok hauls, reddit posts about "my collection of ____" -  Getting away from all of that, you come to realize that it's all just garbage designed to make you consoom, but when you're in the thick of it, it seems normal because you see it with such frequency. Tiktok especially has pushed the idea of "i'm just a dumb gorl who likes her trinkets teehee." Before last year or so, I never heard anyone call a plastic McDonald's toy as a "trinket" but somehow this has become a thing and people feel that these items are valuable now and the only possible source of happiness.

>>5783
This makes a lot of sense. At one point I really like fountain pens, glass pens, and inks. I was involved in a couple social media groups for them. But once I left, I stopped collecting them. I have a few shamefully expensive pens, but I cope with the fact that I don't have several expensive pens in different colorways. They're at least all different brands and nib types...

>>5797
Yeah, I understand that. I like to sometimes look at the reddit groups for fountain pens and journaling communities and it always leaves me wanting, especially ink colors. Stationery consoom in general is something I'm quite susceptible to. During my instagram days, I bought so many memo pads from small illustrators. It's more memo pads than I could ever need, probably around 20 of them. After learning about makeup user's "Project Pan" though, I'm kind of trying to apply something similar to my stationery hoard, using up the products I have before buying anything new. I've also started selling some of my old clothing online, so to help deplete my memo pad stash quicker, I handwrite thank you notes to the buyer on them.

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I guess the Stanley trend died down and they've pivoted to the kpop consoomer base

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generally, I'm not opposed to music consoom, but the behavior of being like "I've bought this much in just this short period of time" rubs me the wrong way and I'm not sure how much of these actually get listened to by the average buyer anyways? Like sure, the owner might listen frequently to these songs, but it seems in the modern world, many people will listen to albums on streaming services, but keep a physical copy (whether cd, vinyl, cassette, or all 3) on their shelves that never gets played. i guess it brings up the question of how useful an item is if it isn't ever used.

>>5823
It's probably a good business move to target two forms of consoom at once.

>>5832
I agree that having a large collection of media such as music or books isn't necessarily bad because these collections would normally be built up over time as someone discovers new media that they like. The screenshot is excessive and also fucking why because I'm old enough to remember having a cassette walkman and they sounded like garbage compared to CDs or vinyl. I feel the same way about VHS and I have no idea why zoomers like these old formats, magnetic tape media died for a reason.

>>5994
I keep scrolling past this and thinking it's so sad. Of all the consooming I see, this is the kind I understand the least. When I was a kid, my aunt would collect barbies and just store them in the box in the closet, so there was just a closet that was floor to ceiling barbies that would never be opened and never be played with. IIRC they weren't even worth anything from a collector's standpoint. Like ok, I probably have a hoarding issue with yarn and fountain pen ink, but at least I can touch it and use it.

>>6062
It really is so sad. I can understand keeping some things in the box like barbies if you have them displayed somewhere where you can see it and it makes you happy, I know some people can specifically appreciate packaging design... but to just buy something and then hoard it away in a closet without ever looking at it again really makes me question why it was even bought in the first place? Is it just that such a person enjoys the experience of shopping? 
TBH, I am also a bit of a fountain pen ink hoarder... I just bought some new inks on this past Fountain Pen Day sales, the first time buying ink since 2023 so it's not like I'm constantly doing it, but even at the same time, I know I probably shouldn't have because I still have plenty of ink from before, but it's easier to justify it since I do use it. It sounds silly, but I might think "well, I already have a green ink that has a red sheen to it, but this one is a lighter green ink with a gold sheen to it and it has a different mood than the other one!" I do use my inks in my journals and I do that scrapbooking style of journaling where I'll include business cards of restaurants I tried or stickers I pick up from museum giftshops, and I'll try to match the ink I use to the general colors on the page then, so it does get used, but I know it doesn't get used at as fast of a rate to match the amount of inks I have.

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I can see having a few e-readers, but this seems like too many

>>7147
The same energy as those moids collecting different 3ds versions.

>>7148
True... but hate to say it, I can almost understand the moids a bit more. I have started to see some game stores declare 3DS as "retro" gaming now, and I know even normie moids will shell out for retro consoles just for nostalgia's sake (like "oh, I miss playing paper mario... let's go out and buy the stuff for it!") so it is not entirely unreasonable to assume that if a moid hoarded 3DS before he may be able to get at least some money for it (even if still overall a loss) once the 3DS starts to be sought after by normie moids. Not sure the same will happen for e-reader hoarders. That probably just becomes e-waste

>>7154
That's a really fair point. Some of those nerds probably wouldn't sell, but at least there is some potential of the collection not being entirely without value in a few years. Older Kindles cannot connect to online services anymore either. There's a way of loading some of your own files through USB,  but Amazon is constantly working to make old devices incompatible. Would it be too controversial to say that a large number of users would consider the device e-waste and buy a new one instead of dealing with the lack of support? I've seen some younger generations be surprisingly tech illiterate at times, and I can think of a few people who wouldn't even start looking into reviving an old e-reader. Some of this hoard will either die all at once, or is already "dead", and that's part of the reason it grew.
By the way, it fucks me up how fast consoles are considered 'retro' now. Is lack of online support really all it takes now?

>>7155
>Would it be too controversial to say that a large number of users would consider the device e-waste and buy a new one instead of dealing with the lack of support?
I don't think that's a controversial statement at all, but rather what generally happens. Luckily there has been the "Right to Repair" movement growing a bit in recent years, though I think it's moreso in the EU instead of globally, but in most cases people stop using tech once it's no longer supported. I've seen people ditch working laptops just because the OS is no longer supported, even though they can still use it without OS updates or if they just install a new OS. Same happens with fitness tracking devices and cell phones.

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>>7156
samefag but it pisses me off that companies like Amazon can just decide to make tech obsolete

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Nice it's a destash, but now the friend has more washi than can ever be used. Really makes me think how much of it is just out there on a global level.

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came across a most bizarre youtube video. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3XTbeWmOvQ
it's apparently a budgeting and savings video? and she talks like she is saving money by buying these lotto scratch off cards that tell her how much money to set aside, and that once she has completed the card she will have saved x amount, like in picrel, it says save $60, but the card itself costs $7 so it's more like saving $53... when she could just do this without the card and have more money saved. not to mention through out the video she is like
>should i buy affirmations for you guys
>let me get out my eraser shavings vacuum 
>let me get out my dice tower
like stop buying "savings scratch offs" and shit from temu and you'd not have to be doing all of this? the only way i could see this being helpful is if somebody has an addiction to lottery scratch offs? but idk i'm just mystified that this video claims to be about saving money but it sure seems like a lot of needless consoom is presented in it at the same time

>>10290
I watched the video and got even more confused. Is this some sort of gamification for... not spending money, except that after you're done with a card you collect the full amount and presumably end up spending it anyway? I don't really understand what's the point. Unless it really is just for the thrill of playing something that somewhat resembles a lottery and then feeling like you got a pay out (that's actually just your own money) at the end?

>>10301
yeah i'm not sure? it just seems very pointless to me and not exactly financially savvy