Who sells a second hand washing machine.

Some of the guys I work with just don’t understand why I don’t have a flat screen HDTV (actuallyI did for a while but that’s another story), Blue Ray, sky HD and all these other must have consumer items.

when you explain to someone who has no kids and maybe still lives with their parents that you don’t have time for these things they just don’t get it – but I’m old, and some say, tight.

I’m not the only one though -  a colleague of mine recently announced he was going to pick up a new washing machine.  I say new – he’d found it on gumtree.

So I asked

“Why would you sell your washing machine?”

…

“Maybe it was the wrong colour?”

“Maybe it was not fast enough?”

Came some of the replies.

And it worries me.

Because, I am a capitalist, I am part of “system” (who isn’t?) but my worry seems to be with consumerism.  It just seems strange to me to get rid of something that does your washing fine because its not aesthetically pleasing when there’s so  much else to put to rights – like maybe a relationship with another person.

But I don’t want to be outside my circle of influence spending too much time in my circle of concern here.

So let me try and influence you with a bit of advice from fight club – “things that you own end up owning you.”