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Is it common to get attached to inanimate objects that you use everyday?

I'm excluding extremely interactive objects (computers/phones, gaming devices, cars/bikes), and objects imbued with sentimental value (gifts from loved ones, childhood toys). I just mean functional items like a reading pillow, a lamp, or a favorite coffee mug.

For me, I take medication that gives me dry mouth, so I keep a water bottle upstairs in my room all the time. A few years ago, I went to a con in Denver and they gave out these big water bottles for hydration at elevation. It was a large size (32+ oz), easy to clean, great for using at my desk or keeping by my bed at night. Because I was there with my parents, we had 3 of these bottles. Unfortunately, because they are squeeze bottles, they tend to split along the seam in the plastic with repeated use.

Bottle #3 is on its last legs now, and I've just had to do a lot of comparison shopping to find a good replacement for it. I've ordered one that looks good and long-lasting, but I'm also really attached to the Denver bottles and worried I won't like the new Nathan bottle as much as these ones. This is a normal reaction to something you use everyday, right?

I'm that way a little, too. Sometimes it isn't so much that an object is the best in the world, but I like it, I'm used to it, and I don't really want to change unless I have to.

I'm not sure if it's common, but I have this. It's more pronounced if I have memories associated with the objects; like: "this is the top I wore when I met my bf" or "this was a gift from my mom". But yeah,I'm also just emotionally attached to my tea mug or the table cloth.

I have a lot of feelings about my car, too. Rightfully I should have gotten a new one, but I'm drawing it out as long as I can.

I cried when my ex-husband broke my favorite tabletop fan. I just loved the noise it made; it was so soothing. It's not just you.

Ooh, actually, yeah. My mom had a flip clock before I was born. When my oldest sister was a toddler, she knocked it off the nightstand and broke it. She still mentions it (and loving the noise it made) sometimes when she sees a flip clock on tv.

I'm guilty too of course, because I broke her mug with the whales on it. But it's got pencils/pens in it now.

I'm not entirely sure if I'm the same way, but I certainly feel like I've had similar feelings in the past. I don't think it's weird; like someone above said, sometimes it's hard to change something you're used to, especially if it's something you use a lot.

Our personality is built around our experiences. If you have a lot of experience with a thing, it makes sense you'd start associating the thing with yourself -"I drink from this water bottle, not any other, each day." It makes perfect sense. And a lot of people do it.

I do it with clothes pretty often. I also do it to my guitar, which I barely play because I don't want to go through the bleeding-fingertips stage again, but I also don't want to get rid of it.

IDK whether it's common or not, but I do it.

Just pencils and pens haha.

I do this with headphones. I'm intensely picky when it comes to the ones I like, because if the sound playback is weird/tinny I feel discombobulated.

Unfortunately I'm also really rough with them so have to replace them relatively regularly and it's always awful.

I'm definitely the same way. To the point where I feel actively bad/guilty about replacing things sometimes, just because they're a little worn out. It's definitely more intense for interactive or emotional objects, but I almost cried once when my work throughout my tupperware that had been a gift from my mom.

Don't know if it's common, but I wouldn't think it's abnormal either given memory and emotional association to various other things like smell. For whatever reason, or maybe you're a potential hoarder lol, you like that bottle. What's wrong with that.

Or do you mean like object sexuality?

We do have an object-sexual anon here (airplanes!), but I am not them.

No no, I think my thing is definitely just "used to using this all the time, hard to find a suitable replacement that meets all the qualities I like." The plus side is, if I like the Nathan bottle as much as these ones, it's much easier to replace! Unless they discontinue it or something of course. But I think it's pretty popular, so let's hope!

Ah I see what you mean, and you sound kind of like my parents. There's a lot of "unreplaceables" that include a dustpan I suspect is older than me, a blender my mom claims no one makes anything like anymore (the blades are superior to her for no reason?), and a couple egg servers that serve as salt holders.

I think this is like 75% of all parents, especially about tools/gadgets. ;)

But it's one thing to complain how you can't find a replacement for that great baking dish in an odd size, and another to keep the old one once's it's completely worn out.

Oh hell yes. I go FAR out of my way to find exact duplicates of old everyday objects I've used for years and finally need to replace.

Computer keyboards and mice, handbags...TMI maybe, but I have been ordering the same styles of undies and bras for something like 20 years. Also a tiny clasp coin purse I carried for ages until it wore through; had to scour Etsy to find one that was just the right size, shape and style in a similar fabric (I had to get a different color, but luckily I found one I really liked.) And I just ordered an updated version of my old netbook that's essentially the same beast but with better specs.

Tbh, I have a spoon at work that's my favorite. I don't know why, it's just the nicest spoon, and it disappeared one day and made me sad. :(

I don't know why but this is cute. I hope you and your favourite spoon are reunited one day! :D

I always carry a large Swiss Army Knife in my pocket. It constantly comes in handy for everything. I've had to replace it a few times because the old one broke, and it's always an emotional wrench.

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