So, I was just going through my inventory on SecondLife and realized that yes indeed, I am a pack-rat in my virtual life as well as my real life. This should come as no surprise. I just recently learned that you can get a count on the number of things in your inventory. I have 6,694 items.
Now, some of that shouldn't really count against me. There are lots of vendors that include landmarks to their store when you buy something and when you buy a lot from the same vendor that adds up to a lot of extra landmarks.
I started wondering just what those 6,694 things were. You know, I have hair in there that I bought when I first started playing. Hell, I have clothes and other things from when I first started. And let me tell you, my virtual tastes have changed a lot in the past year+. But can I get rid of those horribly textured pigtails that are a color I would never be seen in public in?
No. I try them on, say "wow that's ugly" and then leave it in the inventory! It's not that I might need them sometime. It's that it just doesn't feel right to THROW IT OUT.
I'm talking about deleting pixels here folks. Not the second, perfectly good toaster we don't need but I just haven't gotten to Goodwill yet. I hate wasting things. Especially perfectly good things that someone someplace could use. It doesn't feel right to send some things to the landfill.
I find it interesting that these same tendencies are carrying over to SecondLIfe. At least I don't have to find space to put all this cruft. The servers at LindenLabs are big.
