BF wants us to give up internet when we move to Dallas, TX.
I think he’s taking this frugal thing a bit far.
He’s even had to be convinced that we NEED a table and chairs! Can you believe that?
And we’re talking about buying things from IKEA!!
I know I said having a frugal BF is great, but he’s 10 times more of a minimalist than I am and the thought of not even having a table and chairs boggles my mind. That, and maybe not having a little table from the front hallway, because I like to drop all my stuff into a box when I come into the door.
But this internet thing, is going too far, methinks.
We don’t even have TV, and we’re thinking of giving up the telephone and just having cellphones (which we rarely use anyway).
He’s gone mad… but maybe he’s pulling my leg. A bit. I hope.
So the count for furniture is:
1 Mattress Topper (we actually sleep on a 2″ futon on the floor because it’s better for our backs.. I find it extremely comfortable and now I cannot sleep in beds any longer)
1 Table
2 Chairs
C’est tout, mes amis.
Can you imagine what the apartment would look like? HAHAHA 🙂 Maybe I can pass it off as a Zen thing.
I asked about guests (my parents may visit), and he said we’d buy another Mattress Topper and another 2 pillows when the time comes.
But of course, our electronics will be around, I think he’s going to buy another sound system (he’s not bringing the large speakers he bought 4 years ago – too big), and I suppose a fire sale is in order now.
I guess we can slowly purchase things rather than buying everything we THINK we need at once. Right?
Update on the situation
BF now wants to move to Europe, give up everything, live without electricity, telephone, INTERNET (!!!!!!), television (no big loss there), books, and the luxuries of life.
He wants to live like a farmer in the fields, but an old farmer like how his grandfather and grandmother did.
Growing our own olives for oil, fruit, having chickens to lay eggs, a donkey to transport things, wheat to grind into flour…
I`m half loving the romantic aspect of this, and the other half of me is screaming in horror.
*sigh*
I just hope this dream of his dies a quick, painful death. Or else he`s going to hook into this with his claws and never let it go, I`ll have to hear about it for the entire length of 2009.
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X-BF wanted to live in a barn and sleep on a hay-loft with no running water or heat when we moved to New Zealand earlier this year. We’d pick weeds and shear sheep instead of paying rent.
The barn was about 2 hours away from Auckland, and he had to be at school in Auckland EVERY DAY for 12+ hours. So, who, exactly, did he think was going to be shearing those sheep??
Yeah…that didn’t happen. I don’t even think I said one word in reply to the idea, there was just a LOOK and it was shot down. With a quickness.
oo i wouldn’t mind doing the farm thing- later on in life tho! however i would still want the internet!! no compromise there! how come he doesn’t want to move to the country side rather than europe?
re: move to europe
you could be like Diane Lane in that movie Under the Tuscan Sun but with a +1 instead of being single
He’s taking it WAY too far! Life without the internet would just be much to plain! 🙂
x.x
Hey, if you move to Seattle you can keep chickens and up to three goats in your backyard!
I would get fainting goats. 😀
Uh, ok, living like farmers? Fine. Losing the internet AND moving to Europe? Not fine.
Since you asked. 🙂
First time popping through your blog, and although I don’t know anything about you, I found the situation with your BF funny. Being a guy – ok, I don’t know if it’s a guy thing or not – I do have to admit I find your BF’s idea of “living off the land” i.e. ultimate simplicity – very compelling. But who’s kidding who…I’d never be able to do. I love my CDs and books (I could probably do without Internet..haha).
Congrats on the honourable mention by Gail!
I wouldn’t do very well without the internet. It’s one of those things that I cannot live without anymore.
Re: Update
Yeah… I’m kinda going through that phase right now. I’m getting to the point, though, where I realize how much I don’t know and would need to know to do that, and how much work would really be involved. I don’t know how it will work out for him, but at this point I see myself learning more traditional skills as a fun hobby and a way to appreciate the work others have done, but not as a means to survive. Gardening and caring for the chickens is still a nice outlet, though. So, go ahead and encourage him to do things like that as your space allows.
Saver: *LAUGH*!!!.. You do not know how hard I laughed at this comment. Thanks 🙂 If it came down to it, I’d buy my own damn internet and make him pay ME 😛
Little Miss:.. For me, I need good back support at a table with a hard chair. I can’t do it on a couch or a bed.. I get too antsy.
Dog: That’s what I told him! 🙂
Auburn: I am too… more so than to anything else.
LOL! My husband and I don’t have a kitchen table and chairs. Of course, we don’t even have a dining room atm. We just sit at the couch and use our coffee table. Even when we had a proper dining area, we rarely used it.
Our current roommate brought a table and chairs, but there wasn’t room for it in the main living area. So, it’s been sitting — mostly unused — in what used to be our den but will eventually (we hope) be our new kitchen and dining room. She may be leaving it here when she moves, but I’m not sure if we’ll use it at all until the renovations are done. And who knows when that will be.
The thought of not having the internet is not a good one!
I admit it, I’m addicited!
You could get a table and chairs for nothing on Craigslist. Now I wonder what your minimalist apartment is like…
*shrug*
I don’t have a kitchen table and chairs (eat on folding tables on the futon), Internet, cable, home phone line or a table in the hallway and I manage just fine. 🙂
Of course, part of that is because I can get internet from a cafe or BF’s apartment very easily–if I didn’t have that I would pay for it.
I don’t really have a place to put a kitchen table and chairs–NYC apartments are very tiny.
I haven’t had a landline for phone in more than six years and wouldn’t ever go back. Even my parents gave theirs up and just use cell phones. I can’t think of a single situation in which I’d rather have had a regular phone.
I hope you and BF can work things out!
Is he crazy, what blogger lives without internet?!? Just tell him if you get rid of internet and your posts become less frequent then all of us will turn against him and we’ll rescind the title of best BF bestowed on him when he helped you get to work earlier this month. Yes, we’re fickle… 🙂