Shoes: Necessity or Luxury?
By theprofessionalhobo ~ March 28th, 2007. Filed under: Toronto (still/again).
The contents-sale-to-end-all-contents-sales has come to an end. We sold almost everything we wanted to sell, so all was a success. What we haven’t sold is being donated to charity or various friends & family members in need. (PS – Thanks Dawna for being such a willing beneficiary many times over)!!!!
The more I purge my belongings and move towards a simple and non-materialistic lifestyle, the less I want to accumulate “stuff” ever again. I thought I had purged most of my “stuff” prior to moving into the place we are in now, but alas 2 years of living in one place brought into our repertoire many items that we “simply can’t live without”!
I hope that in the future I can hold more perspective on this point and continue to learn the difference between wants and needs. I can only imagine there are many things we’ll encounter in our travels that we see as “needs” that many native-dwellers would disagree with. For example….shoes. Shoes are pretty non-negotiable for me. I like them, I need them. If I don’t have them, my tender tootsies are miserable. I can’t walk more than a few feet a minute without them. Yet for others, shoes are more of a luxury.
….Shoes, a luxury. Ha! And here I am wondering whether or not to bring my pretty pink high heels, or just to “make due” with my black slingbacks. Yikes!
