10 Lifestyle Habits of TCKs
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1. Monthly plans for everything. Phone, Cable TV, and Internet. There’s no way I’ll buy a 3-year plan.
2. Laptop instead of a bulky Desktop PC. It’s useful when you visit family overseas.
3. I prefer to rent furnished. The thought of buying furniture irks me.
4. I don’t heavily decorate my room. Why bother buying fancy curtains and repainting? I’ll move soon.
5. I prefer watching movies online than owning DVDs. No, I’m not a pirate!
6. I’m very frugal. The less stuff I own, the less tied down and happier I feel.
7. I borrow books whenever possible. Ever tried moving a library? It’s not fun - books are heavy!
8. My career is mobile. I like being able to decide where I want to work.
9. I don’t have a large wardrobe at home but I dress well.
10. I don’t own any large pets. But I can accommodate a cat. 
Does anyone here identify with any of them?
April 14th, 2009 at 6:54 am
HA HA!! i pretty much relate to every single one except 3 and 4.
3 because i wasn’t aware that you could RENT furniture.
4 because i enjoy decorating my room, although i have to admit i have a more minimalistic approach to home deco…
i love this! i never thought about how these quirks of mine might have been due to my upbringing! great post, though i think i read it late =P
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May 12th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
#1 monthly plans are the best or pay as you go, although I’m usually can commit to a year at a time. I remember getting my first phone plan, and they asked me if I wanted 1 year, 2 years, or 3 years. 3years!!! the idea that someone can plan 3 years ahead kind of surprises me, plus withing a year, most people want a new phone anyways!
#2, agreed, although with quality of a desktop computer one could get with the price of a good laptop, is sometimes very tempting, i much rather have mobility.
#3, i agree and disagree, I hate buying furniture since it’s unpractical to bring along, but the idea of renting furnished (other then fridge, and stove, which is the norm in Canada) makes me feal like i don’t really live their. I much rather have a lack of funiture, an the furniture i have is really cheap gradge sale furniture, that if i have to, i can throw away. btw, i sleep on a mattress on the floor, cause i don’t think i need a bed or bed frame.
#4, my room, is currently completely undecorated, nothings on the wall, i don’t even have curtains, which is OK since i sleep in a basement.
#5, I watch most movies online (yes I am a pirate!). Although the really good onse i must by for my collection. I really have way to many movies and cd’s it’s pathetic!
#6, yes and no. I’m the type of TCK whos lived a very stable life, I lived in the same city for 18 years! It wasn’t until i returned to my parents homeland before I started fealing the need to be frugle and have less stuff, although when it comes to entertainment (flat screen tv, xbox360, surround sound, laptop, and pc) i’m a complete failure! but i do wish i could just sell it all, and start from scratch.
7#, being from a homeschool family of readers, i’ve always been used to having books. infact our homes in Tainan always had a school room, usually the biggest room in the house, and most of the walls would be books. We where the book library for the other homeschooling in our city. So i have naturally taken on the habit of buying books, especially language books! I would love to borrow and rent, but i take a long time to read a book, and often stop for long periods of time between readings so, i almost have to own the book to read it. (although i have found online audio books a wonderful alternative to having to own so many books!)
8# unfortunately I’m still in university, and am not free from the shackles of low paying and degrading jobs that keep me in the same city.
9# i have pilles of cloths, some of them more like rags, and i don’t dress to well. Truthfully i’ve always been confused about newest fashions and feel weird trying anything that new. I’m usally like 10 years behind. haha.
10# i never owned a large pet. In Taiwan we had a toy poodle and a hair(large rabbit), i also owned many small turtles, and hamsters. Since i’ve moved to Canada and i know I’ll be moving again asap, i’ve only owned a bata fish, who died in 6 months.
It’s funny, my tck life was much more stable then most tcks but I’v always felt that everything i owned, i would one day have to get rid of, and this attitude has really reviled itself when i made my first move to Canada.
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May 13th, 2009 at 5:41 am
@ Senlando:
#3 and #9. I also think that an alone-standing bed is a complete waste of space. On the one hand I have a sleepingcouch, which I often don’t pull out, and just use at it is; and on the other hand my entire wardrobe is under my bed in a seperate room, just big enough to fit my bed… actually its more like a big closet with a bed in it : ) As to the content of the wardrobe - it’s also a fashion jungle. I actually have only two decent outfits - one is a suit(from my prom), the other a set of hiking clothes. The rest always miss one piece or another, and whenever I moved, the new fashion situation confused me into not replacing the old clothes that had torn or gotten too small (since I’ve stopped growing upwards my body has started conquering the other two dimensions…). So in the end, many of my clothes are too small and have a used look to them. I still don’t have a sense of style and it take me ages to pick a new shirt of pants. Luckily I’ve been getting hand-downs from my uncle, but thus I dress a bit old fashioned.
Nevertheless, cheers to all the different TCK habits! : )
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