mindlace

OK, here’s your motivation. You’ve been chosen for a new reality show.

You’ve been taken to infinimart, where they have literally everything available for retail sale on the planet.

The check-out lane says you can have 12 items or fewer, and those are the only physical items you can own for the next year. Otherwise your life is as normal, and at the end of the show you get to keep whatever it was you picked to spend the year with.

For purposes of this checkout, you can have a “bulk pack” or a “set” containing up to 24 copies or pieces.

I would have:

• 1 portable computing device
• 1 portable communication device
• 1 vehicle
• 1 12 piece global knife set
• 1 wok
• 1 bowl
• 1 pair chopsticks
• 1 24-piece set of jumpsuits
• 1 pair shoes
• 1 12 pair sock set
• 1 12 pair underwear set

This data suggests that if I could go naked all the time I could save 25% more stuff for things like, oh, a private jet. Or, if I stopped preparing food, I could have 1/3% more stuff.

Pragmatically, there are too many tools missing from that set for me to live that way; I’d also need a shikifuton for sleep and all the materials needed to clean and maintain the other stuff.

What would you grab from infinimart on the way out?