Sunday, September 12, 2010

Convergences and " A place for my stuff "

All my life for sale was pretty interesting. I found out I kind of do what he did in the beginnig and keep all this stuff that I don't need anymore, the only difference in our stories is that he sold his stuff and I didn't. I thought John Freyer's name for his own catalog was very interesting. When Freyer had listed all of the names he had tried to call his online catalog I was shocked that none of them were available. But that's the kind of problem we run into everytime we try to make a password for something and we think it can't be taken already but unfortunatly it is. The rest of this story I kind of didn't understand and had trouble with it. I didn't know if he was selling all of his stuff to go back to New York or if was just sorting through his stuff so that he could sell and get some money out of his past ?

A place for my stuff was very funny. What he said about people and their stuff is so true. When he had said that " A house is just a big place to keep all your stuff with a roof on top. " Which is really really true. George was talking in his video all about people's belongings and he was talking about how when people go out to like a friends house or say to a hotel, they always end up bringing way more stuff then they actually needed. Which in fact alot of people end up doing just that, and I have to say I am guilty in being one of those many people in bringing more stuff then I actually needed. I have no idea what makes people think you need all this stuff and you go and have a fun time where ever you are at and come home and have never used half the stuff you had originally brought . I think the main message that George Carlin was trying to tell everybody was that it is wonderful that you have alot of nice things and belongings but you do not have to consumed by your stuff and feel like you can't leave it.

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  1. YOu write:

    >> I didn't know if he was selling all of his stuff to go back to New York or if was just sorting through his stuff so that he could sell and get some money out of his past ?<<

    He needed money to travel to NY, so...both.

    Both Freyer and Carlin touch on the way stuff defines us. Good comments on both, Amanda.

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