Are other people also happily basic?

Posted by sudwald@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 139 comments

For example, my car is 15 years old. I’m cooking in half an oven because one half broke but the other works fine. I like a caravan holiday, I like a Travelodge. My towels don’t match because I bought random ones as I needed them but the old ones were still fine. A lot of my clothes are 10–15 years old at this point because they’re still fine. I’m not deliberately tight, I just feel like all this stuff is fine. I feel like there’s a very powerful current especially on social media and in advertising that tells you it’s bad for stuff to be fine, that fine is bad, you should want more. That everything in your life should be aspirational and instagrammable. But surely many people are also happily basic?