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Choice paralysis (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] troglodytis 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly why I ~~didn't~~ don't have any tattoos.

[–] cazssiew 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I CAME HERE TO WRITE THIS.

Wait. Didn't?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

I still don't, but I didn't too

[–] troglodytis 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So maybe more than one reason

Oops. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

And thus, my drawer of stickers

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

even worse: what if I decide where to put it, but in a few yeats get bored with it and peel it away, only to see the surface below not discolour the same way the unstickered parts have?

[–] eatthecake 2 points 8 months ago

This is why i never move or remove my fridge magnets.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I was a poor kid. The aunties and uncles would chip in to get us Lego cars and hands-in-pockets minifigs as kids. It had stickers for stuff like truck grilles before there was silk-screening.

They're still on the sticker pages, so many decades later, carefully stored so a small boy can look at them.

It's weird, of course, to someone who never experienced 'eke' level of working poverty, but it's the situation. My nephew will pass these parts onto his kids who I hope will use them all in a week with wild abandon.

[–] chemical_cutthroat 14 points 8 months ago

I feel the same way about things. Growing up poor I didn't really get much, so when I did I never used it for fear of losing it. My parents bought me a book of paper airplanes where you rip out the paper and follow the instructions to make a unique plane. I never used it. I still have the same problem with receiving food as a gift, I won't eat it. I make enough now to be comfortable, but I have shoes that are worn through that I won't throw away because I rarely got new shoes when I was a kid. I form crazy emotional attachments to gifts because they were so rare and typically meant someone I loved had to go without just to afford it.

[–] f314 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You still get sticker sheets in Lego sets! Only some pieces are screen printed, and usually only in more expensive sets (or on super common pieces).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, and stickers are universally hated when they are in some more expensive sets because they are a pain to apply neatly and they don't last as long or look as good as printed parts.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

i got a reusable sticker book exactly for this reason. it's a notebook with pages of release paper so that you can stick and peel off stickers easily. it gives me the satisfaction of "using" my stickers without the permanence of losing them after sticking

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I'm the opposite. As soon as I have a sticker I have to put it on something. The sticker that came with my lockpicks is on my 3D printer. The JWST sticker that I got from the Lake Afton observatory is on my Xbox. If there's a flat surface with enough space for it, that sticker is on it

I still regret not putting that JWST sticker on my actual telescope

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

the only solution is to buy so many stickers that you couldn't possibly use them all in your lifetime

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These guys would go crazy seeing my kid with stickers. There's not hesitation, those bad boys will get stuck on something, no matter how trivial.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 7 points 8 months ago

I was thinking the same thing. My house is littered with random stickers that have run out of stickiness from being put on everything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Get a sheet of magetic paper or similar and put them on that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

my stickers were all unused

[–] Glowstick 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Broken link on lemmy.world

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Really? I'm logged in through lemmy.world right now and see it, but this happened to another post of mine earlier today too...

[–] Glowstick 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's just showing the broken image icon

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mind checking again now? I re-uploaded with a screenshot of the original image, which sometimes fixes it.

[–] Glowstick 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sweet, thanks. I wonder what the deal is...

[–] Glowstick 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Where's is the original image from? What file format is it?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Either twitter or tumblr, I think.

It was a .jpg, 44kB

[–] Glowstick 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't know then, that sounds very standard