原文：
What is the best thing that money can buy?
答主：James Altucher
Nothing.
That sounds like a glib answer. But "nothing" is a lot. It's expensive to have nothing.
A few months ago my wife and I threw out everything. We threw out/donated all of our books. (we had either read them or we would never read them or we had them on the kindle anyway).
We threw out all of our extra sheets and plates (we've had 1 guest in five years stay over).
We threw out all clothes, 30 years of clothes that were clogging up closets, drawers, hampers, floors, other closets. If we hadnt worn it in the last month, we threw it out.
We threw out all our broken computers ("one day we'll fix them" is what we always said about them when we assigned their place in our home-based computer graveyard).
We threw out furniture we never sat in. We threw out plates for guests. We threw out 40 bottles of wine (we don't even drink. I had gotten the bottles as leftovers in a part eight years earlier). We threw out our cable box.
We threw out all paper. IRS receipts? Bank statements? Notes from the kids' school? All gone.
Suddenly everything was empty. No more bookcases (thrown out). No more paper piling up on the tables. No more spices we had never once used. No more envelopes waiting to carry important packages we never once sent.
Even my own books, translated into 20 languages - would we ever read them? Gone.
Why did we do this?
For the prior three months we had been living in AirBnBs around the country. All over the country we had traveled from AirBnB to AirBnB.
We got a peek into everyone else's life. And we realized that we had lived just fine with just 2 computers, bathroom stuff, and a few outfits. Enough to fill one, sometimes two suitcases.
Never once did we miss anything we had left at home. And so the first thing we did when we got home was to throw out everything we never missed during those three months.
Why is this expensive? It costs a lot to be free. It costs a lot emotionally to no longer need the things you thought would be with you forever. It cost a lot to give up on all the things we thought would happen (guests! parties! thousands of books!) well into our old ages.
But now when we need things, we have to buy them. When we were traveling in AirBnBs, realizing slowly we needed nothing, it was expensive to travel (we traveled for work but still). To test-drive 20 other people's lives.
If we ever did have guests, or needed those plates, or needed more computers, we would have to buy things. If we want anything new, we no longer have the old. So we have to buy.
Or not. That's the key.
Now when we go into our home we feel less stressed, we feel more calm, the hopes of the future and fears of the past are no longer populating the shelves.
Money bought this freedom. But freedom buys you more money. When you are not tied down to anything, you can fly. Fly where?
Fly into space. Fly into the future. Fly like a child, exploring his or her dreams for the first time. Every day.
草草翻译了一下，还请大神指导：
Nothing。
这答案看起来像是在抖机灵，但是“nothing"确是非常多，它昂贵的什么都没有。
几个月前，我和我妻子扔到了所有的东西。我们扔掉或者捐出了我们所有的书（我们读过的或者我们从没读过的或者我们Kindle里面已经有的）。
我们扔掉了所有的多余的被单和盘子（我们五年才接待一个亲戚）。
我们扔掉了所有的衣服。放在衣柜里的，抽屉里的，壁橱里面的攒了30年的衣服，如果我们两个月都没穿了，我们就把它也扔了。
我们扔掉了所有坏了的电脑（当我偶然看见这些破电脑的时候，我总是说”有一天我会修理好它们“，但现在一直都没有修理。所以我们扔了它们）。
我们扔掉了从没用过的家具，我们扔掉了客人的盘子，我们扔掉了40个酒瓶子（我们甚至不喝酒，那些瓶子是我八年前弄的），我们还扔掉了我们的电缆箱。
我们扔掉了所有的纸张，包括纳税证明，银行对账单，孩子学校发的告家长书，所有的这些都扔了。
突然间，我觉得所有的都空了，书柜少了，桌子上的纸张少了，从没使用过的香料少了，从没发出去过的信封包裹也少了。
甚至我自己的书，翻译成20种语言的——我都从没度过，也扔了。
可是，为什么我们要这样做？
三个月之前，我一直住在全国各地的空中食宿（空中食宿是一家联系旅游人士和家有空房出租的房主的服务型网站，它可以为用户提供各式各样的住宿信息。）里面，从这个空中食客旅游到另外一个空中食客。
我们在旅行中观察每个人的生活，我们意识到我们仅仅需要两台电脑，一个卫生间，一些衣服，有时会需要两个行李箱。足以应付每天的生活，而且过的也还不错。
我们从没丢过一件东西，所有的东西我们都留在家中。所以当我们回家后要做的第一件事就是抛弃那些三个月中我们从没用过的东西。
难道这些东西不昂贵吗？它们耗费你很多精力；耗费你很多情感，仅仅是因为你认为你会永远需要这些东西；耗费你去放弃这些东西的勇气。因为这些对你来说已经完全用不到了，这些已经都不再是我们新时代的东西。
但是现在，当我们需要某些东西的时候，我们必须去买。当我们还在空中食客旅行的时候，慢慢的我们意识到，我们并不需要任何东西。旅行很贵的（我们边旅行边工作）。
如果我们家从来不会有客人，或者从来都不需要盘子，或者从来都不需要更多的电脑，我们就不会去购买他们。如果我们想要新的东西，过不久新东西也会变旧的，所以我们也不去购买。
或者不是这样。这才是关键点。
现在当我们走进我们自己的家时，我们会感到很轻松，很冷静。对未来的希望以及对过去的恐惧已经变得不复存在了。
钱能买到这种自由，但是自由购买了你很多钱。当你一身轻松的时候，你就能飞翔，飞到哪里呢？
飞向太空，飞向未来。每天像个孩子一样，探索他们的第一个美梦。
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