Unnecessary Items Quotes

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the time, but have never made it out of their boxes.

Nobody needs an abundance of plaid.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

I think we as women go too far with bags that are super-weighted and I have found that when you give yourself that room to stuff things in you will do it.

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

I don't like the George Costanza-style wallet.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff.

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

When you get back from a trip, make a note of what you didn't wear. This will avoid packing it unnecessarily next time.