128: Stuff comes in, stuff goes out

A different kind of episode – and one sans Also Alsos because we don't need any more things! (You DO need to get your tickets to our holiday screenings of CAROL though, don't forget.)

Here are a few choice quotes we shared in this chat, and some recommended reading:

“As I get older, I’m resentful of how much I have accumulated. I’m actually angry about it.” – Stacey London

The yard sale scene in Ghost World:

Angry Garage Sale Woman : How much for this dress?

Rebecca : God, I can't believe you're selling that.

Enid : That's $500.

Angry Garage Sale Woman : What?

Enid : 500.

Angry Garage Sale Woman : You're crazy. It should be like $2.

Enid : I was wearing that when I lost my virginity.

Angry Garage Sale Woman : Well, why do I care about that?

Enid : Well, why do you want it? I mean, it would look stupid on you anyway.

Angry Garage Sale Woman : God! Fuck you!

“I work today with the manifesto that clutter is unresolved decisions.” – Megan Morton

“I don’t buy that much new stuff at all. I get the thrill of a hunt, this one thing that nobody else has. I always think of it as part of my job and my business, so it’s okay, but I really just want less stuff. Why do I always want something new? What’s missing in me?” – Chloe Sevigny

'Does it bring you joy?' vs. 'If it was covered in shit would you throw it away or clean it?' – Some random person on tikok

"The first thing I tried to unload was four folk-art handbags, each constructed out of braided cigarette-pack wrappers by incarcerated Americans in the nineteen-fifties and sixties. I’d amassed the collection in the nineties, on eBay, for reasons that now elude me." – Patricia Marx

"The trick to buying things you don’t regret is looking all the time and rarely buying. Spend days wandering in and out of shops the way snooty snoots plunder through galleries. Try on things that are popular or appeal to you without any intention of buying them. Look at things way outside your budget and at fast fashion brands. (Canal Street and the New Arrivals at Shein are a reporter/researcher’s best-kept trend cipher.) Do the same at vintage stores and Net-a-Porter and Mytheresa and all the good indie stores online (Worthwhile, Stand Up Comedy, Maimoun etc etc). Go to places like Outline and LaGarconne and ask the people working there to explain the brands and pieces to you. Try to keep cool headed and you’ll soon find that you know so much that you really know you’re being seduced instead of merely flirted with." – Rachel Tashjian in OPULENT TIPS #83

See Alsos

• Raquel Caballero on Opposite Ends
• A Guide to Getting Rid of Almost Everything
• What Jason Schwartzman can't live without
• Amy Sedaris's house tour
• City of Yarra recycling centre

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