I don’t own a clothes dryer, and I don’t particularly miss having one. It’s really not that inconvenient to hang things on a rack to dry. It takes about as long as it would to load the dryer. And I save on electricity and repair bills and space.
I also don’t own a hair dryer. Haven’t had one of those in decades. I’ve yet to be arrested by the fashion police. It takes a lot less time to get ready, and there’s less to pack when I travel.
I also don’t have a TV or an I-phone or a couch. Less stuff to lug from pillar to post. Fewer bills. Less to break down. I keep my kitchen gadgets to a minimum and I don’t collect stuff if I can help it.
I see it all the time. People get a nifty new little thingamajig, and it starts off as a luxury or a convenience or a time-saving device, and it quickly turns into this master/slave relationship, with the thing as the master. When you get something, you become responsible for it, and you also learn to depend upon it. People lose their doohickeys and they freak right out. How on earth are they going to survive without their whatchamacallit?
Stuff just weighs you down, dude. Simplify. You’ll be amazed how liberated you feel.
Having said that, get between me and my laptop or my washing machine and you’ll pull back a bloody stump.
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The View from a Drawbridge 
Been there, hauled that off to La Village De Value. I’m one of those that’s more into things and ideas than people, and I see all this consumerism and planned obsolescence as giving people like me a bad name. I give some thought to what things I really want in my life, and will defend those to the you-don’t-want-to-know,, but I too am free of many items deemed vital by many.
Well said, Kerik!
uh… you might want a dryer… and a hair dryer… where you live now… HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nah.
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