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Originally Posted by BenThere  You just did, and it's a very interesting story!
I believe you have some brilliant insight into a pattern of mindset in your family.
How much of that mindset do you want to continue into your future? Is it useful to you to be a thrifty collector? Or is thriftiness part of a fear of poverty that is just clutter inside your mind? |
Thanks for your reply.
How much of that mindset do you want to continue into your future?
There are parts of that mindset that are useful, but others such as the base fear of poverty that seems to drive a lot of my thoughts and actions that I need to be rid of. Those feelings of vulnerability, of going without, of not being strong enough derive from that inherited base fear, and I believe that in general, this mindset will not serve me well in life.
Is it useful to you to be a thrifty collector?
I am committed to getting rich and saving money is large part of my strategy. But I think I am using this ability of thrift hunter wrongly. I thrift hunt for... useless items. Items that clutter, that are never used but are ultimately acquired to give me that sense of strength, of protection and sometimes even, accomplishment. And I know being rich involves being vulnerable, involves going out of the fort and facing whatever dangers are out there. So I think thrift hunting is a tool, a tool that could serve me to get rich or serve me to keep safe, but poor.
Or is thriftiness part of a fear of poverty that is just clutter inside your mind?
I think now that thriftiness is part of that fear, it serves that fear in its own way. By helping me protect me from those awful threats of poverty. So in a sense, I act from this fear furthering this fear's own existence! I sustain the fear... and the fear supposedly sustains me by saying to me, 'You don't want to be a homeless nobody!', 'Getting kicked out, no where to go!', so I act on those threats through the thriftiness and thus the fear continues its own existence.
I also noticed I have a lot of clutter in my own mind too. Picking up useless bits of trivia and knowledge, devouring books like some sort of demented bookworm. I tend to think that type of action derives from my personality... geeky, knowledge-driven background. Constantly soaking up knowledge and enjoying it. Combine that with my poverty mindset and it's all a bit of a mess really.