How to cope with very few material things?

I'm 35 lived on welfare all my life due to disabilitys… I came from a working class family, had a nice home as a kid, the family home my mum loved and overprotected me.

but now, well into adulthood… I've lost a lot of my possessions over the years, through moving addresses… Suffering theft… Things being stolen from me.

things from my childhood, items i can't replace… Today i live quite poor and own hardly anything material wise.

my main possession is my windows 7 laptop, my old blackberry phone, a few books… Few items of clothing… Few pairs of footwear… And thats all.

i do not own ipad or an iphone, i don't have satellite radio, don't have a playstation 3, don't have a tablet… Or any hand held device… Don't have many clothes… In a modern world full of materialism, how do you cope with that?

Make the most of what you've got. And try getting a less physically demanding job?

Visit a cancer ward in a local hospital and visit the pediatrics ward as well; material things mean nothing. Look at photos of the oil drilling done by hand in Myanmar… You'll feel rich. I've come way down in the world too, and lost most of my material things, but I've got my health, and I have good friends neighbors and family, plus my two dogs. You have blessings in your life, you just need to find them.

When someone is lying on their deathbed do you think they do a stock take of everything they own? No.none of that matters. They think about the experiences they've had, the people they've met, what they did right and wrong. At the end of the day, while material things can be fun, they're not important.

it's really easy to focus on what others have and we don't but don't fall into that trap. There are so many things so much more important and if someone doesn't want to spend time with you or think highly of you because you don't have a tablet or drive a bmw would you really want to be friends with them anyway?

Try thinking about the people in the world who have less. Even a modest home can be appreciated if one remembers that there are homeless people out there. I personally need a mattress but when I think about people who would love to have clean sheets and warm blankets, I don't dwell on my old mattress.

Be content with what you HAVE got. You have a roof over your head. You have food in your belly. You have clothes on your back. You have a family who love you, and a puppy too, so you aren't without the essentials of life are you? I don't have any of the things that you list, here and I'm not in the least bit bothered about it. I haven't been abroad for so many years, that I can't even hazard a guess how long ago it was. We can't even afford to renew our Passports, because our Pensions are so low. I don't have many pairs of shoes, and I rarely buy new clothes, but I have enough to get by so I don't worry about anything else. Be content with what you have got, and be grateful that you have the essentials of life, and then these other things cease to have any importance. Your right in that the world is very materialistic, but you don't have to be, Simplify your life, and be content with what you have got, and you will be a lot happier. I know this is true, because it is what we have done.