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posted by [personal profile] pameladean at 02:32am on 21/12/2010
I've never seen a list like this that hasn't made me want to run away screaming. As you repeatedly point out, nobody putting together advice like this seems to understand how people actually live or what might be valuable to them. This one seems to almost fetishize "space," as if space were anything other than something you want to be using for your own purposes.

I always want to show people like this our house and hope they faint.

P.
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posted by [identity profile] zare-k.livejournal.com at 05:05am on 21/12/2010
mail does not belong in the bathroom

Bah, sure it does.

I am the child of a book collector and a paper-hoarder, but because I moved around so much for a while (and now live in a small house) I didn't have much choice about getting rid of stuff or just not acquiring it in the first place. That certainly had advantages regarding making moving easier (again, not entirely by choice) and it is freeing at some level not to be bound to a mass of possessions, but it was also in many ways wrenching and unsettling. I don't think those experiences made me a better person. There are some things I now regret getting rid of, and I wish I had been in a position of stability such that it would have been all right to settle in and hold on to a little more.
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posted by [identity profile] zare-k.livejournal.com at 06:38am on 21/12/2010
Er, sorry, that was supposed to be a reply to the OP.
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posted by [identity profile] pixel39.livejournal.com at 05:03pm on 21/12/2010
The people that write those lists don't *do* things. They don't write, they don't make stuff, they don't cook. They watch TV and DVDs and play on their computers and that's about it.

I will admit that my house is cluttered, that there is a GINORMOUS stack of books that needs to go downstairs and get shelved, that the sewing room right now looks like it is slowly taking over the office (actually it's just that the current *project* has taken over the office. But that's because I do stuff and some of it takes up space.
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