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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️🌈@thedukewindsor.bsky.social |
"Your life should not be a museum." "Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets."
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Blair Bunny 🏳️⚧️
@bunbunblair.bsky.social
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"Count your blessings" with a pistol being held to your fucking head
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@msea1.bsky.social
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📌
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TheSkeptibrarian
@theskeptibrarian.bsky.social
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My mom had so many candles that she never burned because they were too nice ☹️
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Ade🏴
@515mm.bsky.social
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I'm in work, standing in a pair of boots that would cost to replace, about £500. Most days I wear them I hear.. "Nice boots, mate." Use the nice things (and look after them 🙂)
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Sheila Ritchie
@europesheila.bsky.social
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Absolutely. I have “tidied” a lot since my beloved husband died. I have laid the Persian carpets all over the house. What on earth was he saving them for????
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J. Francis Fright
@jfrancisfright.bsky.social
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I own a 100 year old 1st edition copy of a music book called The American Songbag. I scribble notes and annotations in it and it's well worn from traveling around in my backpack. It's a treasure, and it exists to be USED. 🎶
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Decker Reported
@laurabrevitz.bsky.social
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I love this so much.
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Rutrow
@rutrow.bsky.social
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I'm reminded of a story of a couple who put a plastic cover on the sofa they received as a wedding present. The only occasion special enough to remove it was her wake.
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your buddy eric
@ericplais.bsky.social
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game developers must cringe at their playerbase hoarding potions and scrolls and never using them, it must make the loot system feel like a pointless endeavor
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@katesunrise.bsky.social
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So true ...
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Jimbiddybimbim
@jimbiddybimbim.bsky.social
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@strangerpeace.bsky.social both of these have extreme shirtposting potential energy to me
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Nick, Molly, Dipper and 🌈 Brutus
@knockaboutwok.bsky.social
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Seeing my elderly neighbours, who've been here for decades, die off..... and shortly after there's a skip bin in the driveway of their house filled with the former contents....that's kinda sobering.
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Field Programmable Goat Array
@growlph.greywolf.social
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The "problem" of our parents' entire generation struggling to give their fine china away legitimately brings me joy.
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Uriél Danā
@uridev.urieldana.com
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ElSato
@elsato.bsky.social
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imma go open all my boxed shit right the fuck now
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Lotus
@wlotus.bsky.social
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I wonder if part of the reason some folks do this is the hope "these things could be worth money some day", knowing that is lokely the only way they could experience wealth the way the economy is set up.
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Jfswift
@jfswift.bsky.social
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As a retro game collector I’m torn on this. There is a part of me that wants to preserve things for the future but part of me just wants to enjoy what I have. I compromise and leave a few items alone like some of my sealed ps1 games
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AJ Thomas
@zzypt.bsky.social
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It’s not the good stuff I worry about, I use that. It’s the stuff I keep that’s only occasionally useful that brings me down.
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Sekhburd
@sekhburd.bsky.social
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Don't end the game with your inventory full of elixers.
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Forfatterinnen
@forfatterinnen.bsky.social
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Use that beautiful, blank notebook. Go on. Write in it.
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Lo-Rah
@pastbriton.bsky.social
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Indeed. I use the hundred year old quilt for warmth. I use the silver every day. Things are things. Use them or throw them out. Being is a verb.
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Profit Greenly
@profitgreenly.bsky.social
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For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors survived
Every single person on your mum and dad's side
Successfully looked after and passed onto you life
What are the chances of that, like?
youtu.be/yc9gIzRhrvY?...
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Buzz Foster
@buzzfoster.bsky.social
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I know it's a small thing, but this glass (not THIS exact one, but you get me) is the last one I have that was used on TNG. The rest are broken, and this one inevitably will be, too. Maybe today, or in 1,000 years. I don't hide it. I use it. I'm literally using it right now, and it makes me happy.
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SkyIce
@skyice.bsky.social
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Only two things are made to be saved for special occasions: cognac and and emergency rations.
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George W Harris
@bullcityfats.bsky.social
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Don't die with great wine in your cellar
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Seriva Tigertail
@seriva.bsky.social
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Goddamn.
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Iain
@iainl7.bsky.social
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Even the cheap wine tastes better out of The Glasses We Have For Best. So we only have The Glasses We Have For Best now.
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@pillowsledder.bsky.social
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Been having this conversation with my peers a lot lately.
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Art of Lisa Morgan
@artoflisamorgan.bsky.social
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When we went through my Dad's house after he passed, we found boxed glasses in the cupboard that he and mom received for their wedding. Along with fancy dishes, etc. Never opened. So much stuff, never used. All donated: hope someone's using it now :)
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Wozza B
@wozzabee.bsky.social
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Yep. Drink the expensive wine tonight, don’t wait for some unspecified momentous event because it might not happen and if it does it’ll be just as special without the wine.
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Cubbly Do-Right (he/him)
@recordercub.bsky.social
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Wow. This was a thread I needed to see today.
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Gauchohaulic
@gauchohaulic.bsky.social
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A lot of times, just surviving the day is plenty of reason to celebrate.
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Neil Ramsay
@nramsay.bsky.social
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My parents ALWAYS used the fancy Wedgewood china that's rare, expensive, and near impossible to replace. For EVERY meal. My mother was a fond proponent of not saving things for 'special occasions,' because being around to use them is a special occasion.
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Jazz Tehara
@drjazztehara.bsky.social
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This is how I feel about my vinyl. I have one life I’m listening to that mint condition White Album.
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LeAnne
@ennael.bsky.social
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I know this is off topic, but I love Oliver Darkshire’s one-shot RPGs
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Shadow
@shadow79.bsky.social
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My GreatGrandmother made a quilt for my Mom's first child before Greatgrandma died (Mom had no children yet). She made my Mom promise it would be used, not put away. I loved that quilt and used it until it fell apart. It wouldn't mean nearly as much if it had been "put away" for me.
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Yigit Cakar
@yigitcakar.com
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I love kintsugi for this reason. Objects have meaning because we live with them, use them so that they have the power to remind us our past. The wear and tear is part of objects beauty.
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Iffy bun
@iffybun.bsky.social
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Get poor. All my clothes have holes in. I ain't saving anything for best.
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JJ
@jjreeder.bsky.social
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Who are we saving all these things for? Treasure them, yes, but for gods sake use them and enjoy them.
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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead
@windbarb.bsky.social
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I am so bad about this and need constant reminders to use the special things and stop saving them for... what, even?
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Matt
@mtblah.bsky.social
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This is why I’ve never wanted to be a wine collector. “Pop that cork and enjoy” is as close as I come to a life philosophy
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M'aiq Tyson
@wolfmulder.bsky.social
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Put miles on that old car/motorcycle. Do it.
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Norbert
@norbertmadao.bsky.social
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I love this Rajiv Surendra video on this exact topic.
youtu.be/ClAqiBqqtu0?...
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Scarlet Highlord RetPallyJil, the Ashbringer🔥©
@retpallyjil.bsky.social
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I tried to explain this to someone who was telling me to take one expensive candy out of the box as a treat maybe once a week. Fuck no I'm eating MY candy and if I don't have any tomorrow, well I had a bunch yesterday and had a blast.
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62Caprice
@62caprice.bsky.social
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My inlaws had lovely new dining room furniture, never used for holidays and family dinners. Table sat covered with books and papers for 10 years . Finally used ONCE for a catered dinner after my MIL was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She couldn’t even enjoy the meal! Don’t wait!
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Duncan Disorderly
@duncan246.bsky.social
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This. You only go around once!
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liberalvixen
@liberalvixen.bsky.social
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I've watched enough Survivor to know that I don't want to leave the island with an idol in my pocket.
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Alex Jude Scott
@alexjudescott.bsky.social
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This is why whisky doesn't last long in my house.
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Kovarchi
@kovarchi.bsky.social
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“Oh to live a life where I can afford to not use everything I have”
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Sally
@sirin.bsky.social
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I shared this before. Still holds. Watching them wear 'the best' is such a joy.
bsky.app/profile/siri...
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Shezka's Tea
@shezkastea.bsky.social
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I so so SO wish my mom would understand this. She still has these cute glass spice bottles (a few of them still with some spices inside, with most of the OG labels....) that belonged to her grandmother. She REFUSES to let me clean them out and re-use them! Its been over 20 years, let them go :')
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whetstone
@whetstone.bsky.social
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Yes! My standard for “things requiring extreme care” is “seriously, now, do you think this might be in a museum in 500 years?” and if not then just use the thing. I’m generally a careful person so I still get plenty of wear out of stuff.
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Eve Nicholls
@evenicholls.bsky.social
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I make quilts for my friends. By hand, because I don't know how to use a sewing machine. I get really caught up designing them, so they are beautiful, good enough to exhibit. I tell them firmly that baby quilts are to be dragged around, vomited on, given a good life, and here's how to wash them.
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Atalanta Pendragonne (They/Them)
@atalanta.bsky.social
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Over the course of a brutal time of severe illness and housing insecurity I've lost a lot of beloved possessions. I've never thought of any of those things and wished I'd used them less.
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Etiquetteer
@etiquetteer.bsky.social
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ALWAYS use the good stuff! What could be more Perfectly Proper?
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Pete of Australia
@peteofoz.bsky.social
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Yes! My wife had a similar fear of using the "good" item, until I showed her this clip of monks making, then destroying, a sand mandala. It completely rewrote the script in her head.
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Kris Wernowsky
@kriswernowsky.com
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When you’ve cleaned out the packed home of your nth dead relative who never enjoyed a goddamn thing they ever earned, you’re gonna go ahead and drink that coffee.
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