{"id":750,"date":"2025-09-30T22:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:39:29","slug":"boxes-of-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Boxes of Gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had to clear my store, or to be exact, the boiler room where I store most of my junks, because the boiler engineer had to come and inspect the state of the boiler. It\u2019s a good thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when I had to put the things back in, I had to face the fact that I had been hoarding things. I still have boxes for my gadgets, and other people in the house, such as the box for my phone. I kept that with the idea that it would add value when I resell them, but even before rebuked by my wife\u2019s comment (at this rate, we will pass down all our gadgets to our kids, she said), I knew it was a weak argument. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I made the plan to sell them on Ebay. Which in some prolonging the hoarding, but, there\u2019s a but, I have set the date due of throwing them all away into the recycling bin, by the end of the week. That solves that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is not solved is the reason for the hoarding. I thinks it\u2019s because the gadgets are too expensive and I bought beyond my means, that I justify to myself that I need to get my money back? Or maybe I admire how sleek the boxes are? I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway if you have the same problem and have an answer, I am glad to hear the argument. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for reading. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to clear my store, or to be exact, the boiler room where I store most of my junks, because the boiler engineer had to come and inspect the state of the boiler. It\u2019s a good thing. But when I had to put the things back in, I had to face the fact that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[134,113,24],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-hoarding","tag-psychology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farisismail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}