I saw a guy comment on this image once. He talked about how he'd hit absolute rock bottom at one point in his life, but managed to claw his way back up and get a job that let him get an apartment. Most people see this image as a huge failure, but he explained that in his case getting that bare apartment with an air mattress was a huge step for him towards a better quality of life.
TBH, this is true of me as well (maybe not to the same degree as the person you were talking about, but I can relate to it is my point). I was living with my mom until last December, and from the time that I graduated high school until I was about 28-29, I had always been either long-term unemployed, underemployed, & working for minimum wage.
My apartment looked pretty similar to this (and tbh is still pretty sparse, although now I have an actual bed), when I first moved into it.
A: Hi, I'm a monk.
B: Interesting, I've never met a monk before. Benedictine? Cistercian? Buddhist?
A: Crypto.At least the crypto monks are keeping the vow of chastity as well as poverty.
Haha, gottem
about to move for the first time and i'm pretty sure my room is gonna look like this for a week or two. assigned male at apartment
I love my brother and his wife, but their house is stuffed. There's barely any floor surface that doesn't have furniture. The non-kitchen furniture that's made for sitting on has throw pillows on top of throw pillows on top of throw pillows, and the non-kitchen furniture that's not made to sit on is loaded with photo frames and/or lamps. The walls are covered in art and framed photos. I walk in to their house and immediate claustrophobia sets in. The queen-sized bed in the guest room had (last time I visited) two sheet blankets, four comforters, and six pillows.
At least they keep the place clean. It's not a hoarder house. Just filled with so fucking many things.
I think both extremes are true for most people, we just have different cutoffs for "too cluttered" and "too spartan".
I beat the male allegations by becoming a weeaboo instead. It's not a trashy mattress on the floor - it's a classy futon!
I beat the male allegations by becoming a weeaboo instead.
That one can go either way tbh; but I am glad that you fell on the side of the divide that you wanted to.
id much rather live in the Barren Cave than in the not-quite-hoarder conditions I grew up in. I look at that picture and I see a cozy place where there's room to do stuff if you feel like it
I kind of romanticize the Japanese homes where everything packs in to wall storage spaces and you pull out different furniture for whatever you're doing at the time then put it away when you're done. My neurospicy conditions make keeping my space clean very difficult, so that kind of clean, structured space is very appealing.
What's wrong with that? The person has nothing so they started with the essentials, tho I don't think a TV should be a priority.
This is a better example of someone starting a home with the essentials first:
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nothing wrong with the room itself but its that cryptobros think this is peak sigma living to become a billionaire.
I want to say I saw comment somewhere where someone said that after years of having nothing they finally had a paycheck that would cover their expenses and have some money left over so they bought a TV and a game console. Like they had the bottom of the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs pyramid covered for the first time in a long time, so they used the surplus they had for something that would provide them entertainment and relaxation they hadn't previously been able to enjoy.
Personally I enjoy using less water and getting a shitload more time to do things I want to do, by having a magic box solve the problem for me
I actually like extremely minimalist aesthetics in homes, I just hate its association with some of the worst people on earth.
yeah I have a minimalist setup because I just don't want anything
Grew up poor AF, but at least had the sense to make furniture out of wire spools, milk crates, cinder blocks, etc.
reminds me, i've been wanting to grab a old but flat door and use my pair of filing cabinets to set up an actual (makeshift) workbench. Just using a folding table right now. Not good for PC work or drilling holes in steel for custom chassis
What the fuck does "stack accordingly" mean?
Also damn, this guy out here making my plain white apartment with no decorations look good by comparison.
This is literally a sketch in the old web series 'Pure Pwnage' where the main character is a 30 year old 'pro gamer' who lives in an empty apartment with only an inflatable mattress and a PC. Sadly the actor/writer became a total boomer-brained jordan peterson follower.
After. He's in his 40s now, maybe pushing 50, and retweets a bunch of problematic shit on twitter. He became the character he was satirising.
I went to see the premier of an episode once in London. It was the smelliest room I have ever been in. Shame about him being an idiot now. They had some genuinely funny skits.
Only thing missing is a good set of speakers, a TV stand and a bed.
But seriously if I had the money, I'd love to do a room where everything is transparent/made of Perspex or glass. Like the transparent Gameboy, but for the whole room. Transparent DML panel speakers, all the plastics and metals on the TV and games console replaced with transparent bits, a glass table, glass cupboards/storage, some minimalistic see though chairs. I think it would be a great great look for just one room.
