Durability
Feb. 19th, 2009 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebOnce you have everything you need, you're still not done buying stuff because some things don't last forever:
Things that get used up
* food
* gas
* batteries
* services (electricity, etc.)
Things that wear out
* clothes
* sheets
* appliances (smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, water heaters, refrigerators)
* electronics
* roof shingles
Things that become impossible to use, even if they're still perfectly good
* 8-track tapes, things on 5 ¼-inch floppy disks, etc.
* things that get lost
* clothes that are no longer the right size or are hopelessly out of date
Things that get destroyed
* moth-eaten wool clothing
* moth-infested juggling balls (they like the rice I filled them with)
* mildew-covered things
* totaled cars
* watches that have gone through the wash
I'm getting old enough to where I'm starting to get it through my thick skull that almost everything wears out or otherwise becomes unusable.
It seems like a good investment would be things that last forever.
* solid furniture
* classic jewelry
* books, board games
* um, tattoos?
And some things could last forever if they were properly maintained:
* houses
* cars?
* knives (need sharpening)
Some things could last forever, but you get tired of them:
* plaster cast of your hand print
* gifts from an ex-.
What are some things you've had a long time and/or think you might have forever (by which I just mean the rest of your life)? Here are some of mine:
Long time
* Dad's polyester bathrobe that shrank and now fits me
* Some wall hangings and other decorations I made or got when I was a kid
* books, board games
Forever
* A quilt I made
* A bunch of jewelry
* hair sticks
* various pieces of wooden furniture
* some framed paintings and prints
* nail files
* metal tools such as a manual can opener, measuring spoons, mixing bowls, cookie sheets
* silicone muffin pans?
* trees I planted
Blog entry of the day - Small Notebook's Good to Own: Useful Tools - my favorite is #10, "Level. Check to see if your pictures are straight. If you don't have [a level], you can do like my friend Angie and put Oreos on top of the picture frame, to see if they roll."
Things that get used up
* food
* gas
* batteries
* services (electricity, etc.)
Things that wear out
* clothes
* sheets
* appliances (smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, water heaters, refrigerators)
* electronics
* roof shingles
Things that become impossible to use, even if they're still perfectly good
* 8-track tapes, things on 5 ¼-inch floppy disks, etc.
* things that get lost
* clothes that are no longer the right size or are hopelessly out of date
Things that get destroyed
* moth-eaten wool clothing
* moth-infested juggling balls (they like the rice I filled them with)
* mildew-covered things
* totaled cars
* watches that have gone through the wash
I'm getting old enough to where I'm starting to get it through my thick skull that almost everything wears out or otherwise becomes unusable.
It seems like a good investment would be things that last forever.
* solid furniture
* classic jewelry
* books, board games
* um, tattoos?
And some things could last forever if they were properly maintained:
* houses
* cars?
* knives (need sharpening)
Some things could last forever, but you get tired of them:
* plaster cast of your hand print
* gifts from an ex-.
What are some things you've had a long time and/or think you might have forever (by which I just mean the rest of your life)? Here are some of mine:
Long time
* Dad's polyester bathrobe that shrank and now fits me
* Some wall hangings and other decorations I made or got when I was a kid
* books, board games
Forever
* A quilt I made
* A bunch of jewelry
* hair sticks
* various pieces of wooden furniture
* some framed paintings and prints
* nail files
* metal tools such as a manual can opener, measuring spoons, mixing bowls, cookie sheets
* silicone muffin pans?
* trees I planted
Blog entry of the day - Small Notebook's Good to Own: Useful Tools - my favorite is #10, "Level. Check to see if your pictures are straight. If you don't have [a level], you can do like my friend Angie and put Oreos on top of the picture frame, to see if they roll."